I have a seemingly random number of thoughts and interests that cross my mind every day. I was home this afternoon working on the yard while we had a dry day in Portland. It’s the last day before I head back to school in Oakland and I’ve been putting off cleaning up the yard. I set up this blog a few days ago after deciding to shut down my other SmallPondNews However, I didn’t know how to categorize it. website in a few weeks when the domain expires. The idea for that wiki did not pan out; in fact, it was a flat out failure. I do not have any subscribers or contributors. Without contributors a wiki is not really working, is it? More on this subject at another time. I was trying to find out how to capture my thoughts and writings and thus will try this blog.
While cutting back the hydrangea bush between my neighbor’s house and ours that sits on an hill overlooking downtown Portland I was thinking about David Brook’s piece in today’s New York Times It’s a review of a new philosophical book “All Things Shining” by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly. It is a description of our current age and the desire to have experiences in groups such as sporting contests, concerts or theater because these events allow us to become part of something greater than we are as individuals. While I need to read the book and not just consider it from a review, the synopsis did get me thinking about how I perceive the world, the lens through which I consider everything.
I am one who believes in my heart of hearts in a unified theory. It does not matter if it is in the realm of Stephen Hawking’s lifelong search or a single unified model to capture all of an organization’s data. I love biochemistry and how molecules and their processes universally function in all cells and how cells tie into an organism and then into an interlocking sphere of organisms and environment. Maybe it is because I was raised Roman Catholic and have a Jesuit bias that I believe all existence has a theological basis and that a creator is pervasive at all levels.
I am driven to try to put the world I experience into an understandable context that fits together. Sure it is a tall order and not achievable but it is my way of thinking. Please feel free to add your thoughts, debate, agree, or disagree.
