The Frailest Thing: Miscellaneous

93 Shared Sensibilities Rochelle Gurstein captures in lovely prose a handful of thoughts I have attempted, with less eloquent results, to express myself.

94 After Stories In the Old Testament, or the Hebrew Bible if you prefer, there is a story about a king and his excesses and a prophet who, as we would say today, spoke truth to power.

95 Suffering, Joy, and Presence “I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.

96 The Tourist and the Pilgrim What does it mean to be a tourist? I thought about this often while spending two weeks out of the country being just that, a tourist.

97 The Tech-Savvy Amish It would be impossible to find human cultures that were not also tool-using cultures. For as long as there have been human beings there has also been technology.

98 Freedom From Authenticity My thinking about authenticity is sporadic and owes more to serendipity than to any conscientious scholarly endeavor.

99 What Do We Want, Really? I was in Amish country last week.

100 The Wonder of What We Are I recently caught a link to a brief video showing a robotic hand manipulating a cube.