• Conversations September 3, 2010

    Friday, September 3, 2010 4:50 AM. Still pursuing the statement that any given level does not depend upon or affect other levels — and yet does. Clever of us to put it  just that way, apparently. It holds your interest and it holds continuity. All right. And I have it in mind that you intend…

  • Conversations September 4, 2010

    Saturday, September 4, 2010 4:45 AM. You were going to conclude your list of the way our lives change by discussing how we express various aspects of ourselves. And, as you knew immediately, this was a major topic far too important and too involved to be dealt with as an afterthought or even dealt with…

  • Conversations September 5, 2010

    Sunday, September 5, 2010 5:50 AM. Thinking, for some reason, of “The Search For Spock” and the TV episodes of Star Trek that I have been watching (the complete set of VCRs, the gift of a friend uncluttering so as to be able to accumulate new clutter, as do we all). Watching so many TV…

  • Conversations September 6, 2010

    Monday, September 6, 2010 4:40 AM. Today is an anniversary that grows in importance to me year by year. On September 6, 1966 — 44 years ago — I made my first journal entry. This present 6 x 9 spiral bound journal book is my 81st. I do believe that the simple habit of keeping…

  • Conversations September 7, 2010

    Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:15 AM. Asthma again. Well, it is September, after all. Since I’m up, you guys care to continue where we left off? The volatility and porous nature of consciousness, and how (as well as why) the individual may be looked on as a convenient fiction. Volatility, because no two moments of…

  • Conversations September 9, 2010

    Thursday, September 9, 2010 6:15 AM. My friends? Re-reading — scanning — the previous one or two sessions will help bring you closer to our intent at the moment. We mean this as a general principle. Even if we go off on an entirely different tangent, it will still bring you within the railroad station,…

  • Conversations September 10, 2010

    Friday, September 10, 2010 5:10 AM. I am still not re-reading, making notes of loose ends, noting my questions arising from the material. But even scanning the material a couple of days at a time, as I do when I post previous entries onto the blog, reminds me of things I’d forgotten. It’s surprising, repeatedly,…

  • Conversations September 11, 2010

    Saturday, September 11, 2010 6 AM. We sort of went off on a tangent yesterday when we started discussing the virtues, didn’t we? Tangent from what? Tangential to what? There are a million ways to convey what we are trying to convey, some of them seemingly irrelevant. But we can go back to where we…

  • Conversations September 12, 2010

    Sunday, September 12, 2000 3:10 AM. Too early for coffee and in fact too early to be out of bed if my breathing would only smooth out. Last night for the first time I lay in bed actually having a hard time going to sleep — which I rarely have — because of the thoughts…

  • Conversations September 13, 2010

    Monday, September 13, 2010 5:15 AM. Surprisingly, a solid night’s sleep. I’d have bet the other way, but I’m glad to have been wrong. But I’m sort of tired this morning, and blank, so I hope you guys have a topic in mind. I’m really tempted to skip doing this, but I know I’d be…