Full Circle
Would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothingContinue Reading
Ecosystems Defined?
I sometimes hear the word ecosystems used to describe software or business systems, and my first thought is that this is a corruption of something beautiful, like saying a tyrant is like god. But this is not a very generous thought. The truth is, the more we think we knowContinue Reading
From Verbs to Nouns
When the forces which hold molecules together disappear, as when a snowflake melts, the individual molecules – even the individual atoms – are lost and must seek out new qualiadelic relationships if they want to endure. The water of a melting snowflake will evaporate into the air, pour down asContinue Reading