Simple LIfe – Discursive Dialectics

The Being of Silence

Many, many years ago, I picked up an old used copy of a book, The World of Silence, by Swiss philosopher, Max Picard. At the time, I didn’t know who Picard was, but the book looked interesting and had a preface by Gabriel Marcel, a philosopher whose work I did know. So, I bought it.Continue reading “The Being of Silence”

In Praise of the Mundane

C.S. Lewis wrote a poem entitled In Praise of Solid People that for many decades has remained a favorite of mine. The opening stanza reads: Thank God that there are solid folk Who water flowers and roll the lawn, And sit and sew and smoke, And snore all through the summer dawn. The poem continuesContinue reading “In Praise of the Mundane”