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Essays on current affairs, business, investing, economics and politics can be found in this section. Think in the Morning has no particular incite into any of these areas. We write what we are inspired to write. Read at your own risk.
Semiquincentennial and Melville’s Bartleby
The United States is celebrating its Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) this year on July 4, 2026, marking 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. The official celebration has turned into “a melange of Trumpian...
In Search Of An Ethic
How to be, that is the question. I was raised by divorced parents. I lived with my mother, a practicing Catholic, and visited my father, a free mason, on school vacations. I learned to live in a world where people have different beliefs. From my mother, I learned...
Blake, Einstein, and AI: Vision, Imagination and Consciousness
When a woman asked where he saw his visions, the poet and artist William Blake reportedly tapped his forehead and replied, "Here, Madam.” Blake believed his imagination was a divine, infinite space rather than external, physical phenomenon.Blake experienced his first...
Alphabetical Index Of Posts
[Click on BLUE links to access any blog from the list]Napkin Art Gallery LINKBlog Posts in Alphabetical Order 4 Reviews For Behind The Locked Door86’dA Bit of An ItchA Dog in the FightA Doodle A DayA Few Comments About the Old Sea Gull Cellar BarA Few Things I Learned...
Don’t Stop Believing
This post is personal. Last Saturday, May 2nd, the Fort Bragg High School Timberwolf baseball team was invited by the Justin Siena High School Braves from the Napa Valley to play a game at the San Francisco Giants field in Oracle Park. It wasn't free. A lot of money...
Independent Bookstore Day – Gallery Books
I discovered books at a young age. I knew immediately there was something important between the covers, something to be decoded. I learned to read and I was hooked. I grew up in a small rural town. There were no bookstores. I discovered I could order paperback books...
Interstices
“It’s not the notes you play. It’s the notes you don’t play.” Miles DavisAccording to Merriam Webster: Interstices are small, narrow gaps, crevices, or spaces between closely spaced objects or parts commonly referring to cracks in walls, spaces between atoms, or...
The Anti-Jazz Of Epic Fury
Referring to the character Horacio Oliveira in Julio Cortizar’s masterpiece novel Hopscotch, one reviewer wrote:He often asks himself how it is possible that humans as a genus, as a species, as an ensemble of civilizations, have arrived at the present day by...
In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb
I’m hopelessly stuck in the sixties, seventies and eighties. That’s as far as I go unless I’m forced to function in the present as I am today. I’m pretty good with technology, I guess. I majored in math and economics. God know’s why, as they say, those who believe....
Ice Out. Now!
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You Break It You Own it
With the news from Venezuela this morning (January 3rd, 2026) we refer you to our good friend over at Global Macro Monitor. The crib notes for those who won't or can't read this important post in all its detail are pasted below. For the entire article click on this...
Trump’s Great Leap Backward
There is a strange similarity of thinking between Trump’s tariff-driven bid to “restore” U.S. manufacturing and Mao Zedong’s ill-fated Great Leap Forward (1958-62). They do not share an ideology but a method: both are top-down attempts to force economic reality to...