Hello world!
February 5, 2007
My writings have been a part of my life since I can remember – I suffer alas from cacoethes scribendi – an insatiable urge to write. Metta, Mitzvah and Morph however, arose, at least in part, from my 2007 New Years essay which I have added as my first post. At the suggestion of a few folks I decided to compile my work onto the public digital medium.
Though I have lived a day or two and seen a few things I don’t know more or less than most folks. At best I can say I am deeply grateful for this life, for the joy of being able to live it. Rare is the day when some comment, or sight, some bit of news or something I read does not give me pause for thought – the world is a fascinating place.
’There is grandeur in this view of life’ wrote Charles Darwin in his last lines of Origin of the Species. Indeed, there is grandeur not only in the evolution of the species but in the intricate threads of our daily existance. These pieces then are merely a minor assortment thoughts informed by whatever I have done or whatever I come to do - a conglomeration of experience, of memory and moment. Observations of life.
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
By a chance bond together
Dangling this way and that, their links
Were made so loose and wide
H.D. Thoreau (Sic Vita)
