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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.
Road Tripping To World Peace: Interlude II — Alexander von Humboldt
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Traveler, your footprints by Antonio Machado Translators Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Railway Travel. A journey in a railway train makes me sentimental. If I enter the compartment a robust-minded, cheerful youth, fresh and whistling from a walk by the sea, yet, as soon as I am settled down in one...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part I—for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GYvfYjyV0 Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know...
Summertime
It has been said that bad things come in threes. It’s an old wives tale thoroughly debunked by the mathematician John Allen Paulos, but you’ll never get the conspiracy theorists to disbelieve it especially in the current political atmosphere. I can...
Political Antinomians
Snopes.com [Click on BLUE links for articles, sources, and more information] “There is only one heresy and that is Antinomianism.” John “Rabbi” Duncan In Christian theology, an antinomian is a person who believes the moral law is of no use or...
Coincidence Or Business As Usual
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] They’re back in the news again. All three. At the same time. Oliver North soon “to be the NRA’s new president”, Iran, Donald Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Abide by Nuclear Agreement, and Daniel...
The Eyes Have It
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...
The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 "The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in...
Laughter
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] I hate scarce smiles, I love laughing. William Blake annotations to Aphorisms on Man by Johann Caspar Lavater Several have defined man as "an animal which laughs." Henri Bergson, Laughter...
Character
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] You have character. You can be a character. You can create a character, build character or engage in character assassination. There are characters in real life, characters in novels. They can be...
The Art of Empty Spaces
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] On the Paseo de la Reforma, that grand avenue simulating the entrance to an imperial Mexico City that of course no longer exists, there’s a quadrangle of tiny absences, small plazas, where once there...
Monkeying Around: Isak Dinesen, Frida Kahlo, Wislawa Szymborska
[Click on BLUE link for sources and more information] When men by way of their conventions have got themselves into difficulties, then let the monkey in, he will find the unattainable solution. Isak Dinesen, The Monkey I’m old-fashioned and think...