Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William Blake
Ignorance, Apathy and More
As the joke goes: Q: What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: I don’t know and I don’t care. What are we to make of this in today’s political environment? The First Lady wears a jacket that conspicuously says: “I don’t...
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Pandora Box Complex
I have been called a Luddite. I welcome it. Do you know what a Luddite is? A person who hates newfangled contraptions… Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something....
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One Big Happy Family
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look...
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Blog Post Index
[Click on BLUE links to access the blog post from the list] Think in the Morning now has over 300 posts. Given that we started in March of 2016, this amounts to nearly 2 posts per week. It’s getting a little unwieldy. We think many of our old posts are worth...
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Life’s Pleasant Surprises
These are random thoughts, silly meaningless phrases, ideas, definitions, quotes, etc. Does it matter where they come from? I cite sources when I can. The soul, whatever that is, seems to need these interstices, room to stretch, degrees of freedom, mental doodles...
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Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] We are living in a culture that insists on lying as its delivery of how we are living,” she said then. “It insists on telling us information about which we are left wondering whether it is true or not … Fiction and...
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Short Fiction – Cado Maestro Tiene Su Librito (Every Teacher Has His Little Book)
While Augustine was working on his book On the Trinity, he was walking by the seaside one day, meditating on the difficult problem of how God could be three Persons at once. He came upon a little child. The child had dug a little hole in the sand, and with a small...
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Think in the Morning Oaxaca Journal
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Oaxaca is one of the most beautiful places on earth in our opinion. We have visited every year for the past twelve years. Because we write so much about Oaxaca, we are often asked how to travel there, what to do,...
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Short Fiction – Twenty Dollar Bill
Charles decided to change his life. This is not an uncommon thing after a divorce. If his wife could leave him and run off to Argentina with her lesbian friend, he could ... what? Do something. Yes, do something and he would.The list of complaints was legion. She...
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Pop Goes the Weasel
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Disclosure: I have no particular insight into the financial markets. In this I am in good company (just read the financial press for a battery of conflicting reports). Just a couple of weeks ago the famous bond...
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Do We Live In An Artificial World
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information]I’m not a Christian at least in any formal way but I do read the Bible. In this I agree with Christopher Hitchens (RIP)."A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin...
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Short Fiction – Desipio: Last Part
This is the End of a two part story. For the first part go HERE Desipio continued ..“Have you seen how he throws the salt over his shoulder after he spills it?” asks Rosa.Carmelita continues looking at the garden while she answers.“He goes back to that garden over...
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