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Will we ever have great writers again?
Every age has its great writers – and historians, poets, novelists, scientists, mystics, journalists, essayists, playwrights, naturalists, technologists, and business authors. But with AI making teachers, authors, artists, and reporters obsolete, will we ever have great writers again? Or will we look back on the early 21st century with nostalgia and longing, as we wonder…
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Homeless on my 12th birthday, Rand McNally showed me wilderness
Atlases and their maps are the most truthful books. They offer as well endless untold stories and mysteries for a boy, and an old man. Rand McNally showed me wilderness, and I’ve never been the same. It’s the summer of 1970, and my mom, brother, and two sisters are homeless. We’re staying in a cheap…
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Optical Illusions of the Evening Mountains Suggest Crossing Horizons in the Mind
Along the Colorado front range, the Rockies rise abruptly from the treeless and flat High Plains. The mountains provide a forever-reference to the west, a tall and jagged and solid compass viewed from anywhere. As the sun sets in that direction, and after sundown, as evening fades close to darkness but when the western sky…
