"The Metaphysical Club"--Louis Menand. A book on William James, Dewey, Charles Sanders Pierce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. / A sample, an extract from Dewey: "...the non-social individual is an abstraction arrived at by imagining what man would be if all his human qualities were taken away."
Thomas Aquinas. Who I haven't read, but who wrote something I read in another book I've been skimming. If there were ever a thesis statement for the nobility and wonder of being, this would be it: "Every creature shares in the dignity of causality, that God has shared with all creatures."
Every creature participates in the dignity of causality, would be my humble, agnostic revision of it.
Steve Reich's "Desert Music". A pretty good soundtrack for waking up in the morning to bake biscuits and sip coffee to.
Hope Hunter and Amy and doing well. Thinking of you, Abe.
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Say yuck if you must, but your Aquinas quote has just snapped my world into a focus it was sorely lacking.
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