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- Oliver Sacks’ Ambivalence on Living in the Digital Age
- My Book Draw-List for 2019
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- And a Child Shall Lead Them: Healing What Ails Us
- The Plight of Native Americans in a White America
- Why We Name Our Children as We do.
- Thoughts on a remarkable book I’ve just re-read
- Trophy Hunting Looms for Grizzly Bears
- Amy Lowell’s “A Fixed Idea”: An Exploration in Paradox
- Artificial Intelligence: Will It Take Your Job?
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Author Archives: RJ
Oliver Sacks’ Ambivalence on Living in the Digital Age
There isn’t anything I enjoy more in a stress-laden world than a time-out for a good read. Books lend me a purview of how others experience life, lending sagacity and connection with my fellows. Books teach me that I’m not … Continue reading
My Book Draw-List for 2019
One thing I like about any dawning New Year is the compiling of lists, which come in various genres like resolutions, lead events, best albums, movies, TV programs and, of course, roll calls of individuals who’ve passed before the New … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged book draw-bag 2019, booklist, booklist 2019, RalphJoly's booklist for 2019
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An Upstart Poet I Like a Lot
I’ve had this love affair with poetry since my earliest days, relishing metaphors that translate life from prose to camera, the sheer musicality of it, the crossword deliberation it compels, the tension of its paradoxes capturing life’s myriad, inherent subtleties; … Continue reading
And a Child Shall Lead Them: Healing What Ails Us
I was talking just a few minutes ago with my better half, wondering just how I used to spend my idle hours before the Internet came into vogue. As is, I’m cuffed to a binary lodestone, whether smart phone, iPad, … Continue reading
The Plight of Native Americans in a White America
The White Man’s misdeeds in America towards its indigenous peoples are incalculable in number and cruelty. I was reminded of this last week when Karen and I visited the Grand Canyon and learned from the Visitor Center that Yavapai and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Politics, Reflections
Tagged Native Americans, Sioux, Sitting Bull, Standing Rock Protests, Wounded Knee massacre
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Why We Name Our Children as We do.
Have you been following today’s trend in baby names? Whatever happened to names like George, Susan, Henry, Robert, Marvin, Kenneth, and Molly? Names typically follow fashion and fashion, of course, changes just like clothing, hairstyles, and music favorites. We’ve this … Continue reading
Thoughts on a remarkable book I’ve just re-read
This week I re-read Brad Willis Warrior Pose, a book that has lodged in my memory since I first came upon it two years ago. I read a lot of books, but only a few do I read twice. It’s the … Continue reading
Trophy Hunting Looms for Grizzly Bears
Averaging 800 pounds, powerful and fast moving, voracious defenders of their young, grizzly bears are a North American treasure deserving of our awe and worthy of preservation. Native Americans held them sacred and embedded them in their legends, dances and … Continue reading
Amy Lowell’s “A Fixed Idea”: An Exploration in Paradox
A Fixed Idea What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, imagism, imagist poets, Italian Sonnet, modernism, nostalgia, Obsessiveness, Paradox
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Artificial Intelligence: Will It Take Your Job?
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” (Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita following the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima) Recently, my daughter shared details of her trip as an Amazon employee to Las Vegas to attend … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Technology
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, MKartin Fod, offshoring
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