It was Monday that morning too, eleven years ago this moment, January 24, 2011, snow on the ground, twenty-something degrees out, a wind coming off Lake Erie, cold as the dickens. Bundled against it, in the predawn blackness our group had ridden the campus trolley from our motel over to the Heart Institute, and after a few minutes in the waiting area, a wheelchair had rolled up and I'd been whisked away to "prep".  "Take off everything but your birthday suit and lie down on the gurney," she said. "Shall I keep my birthday suit on?" I asked. But it was Monday morning where nothing is funny. Her workweek just begun and, humorless, with authority and a one-line script, she commanded again. "Take off everything but your birthday suit." So off with it and lie flat on the gurney to be shaved toes to neck with an electric razor that was set to nick painfully, which, thinking back, I am pretty sure was the part she enjoyed most.  In a couple minutes ...

Doubt is quite an important part of me. Time, Time as well, which should be obvious enough because, believing Time is all we have, I respectfully and lovingly try to mind always to capitalize Time even though I'm not convinced it's anything but an illusion, a notion, a human construct. Eternity? it's a religious and tentatively cosmological notion that's not part of the article's title, so No. Space? yep, as a sometime half-baked amateur astronomer at a couple or three (three) periods in my life, I made a hobby and an escape of Space.  Mystery, IDK, it's all a Mystery except the nonsense of philosophy that denies the existence of objects - - the keyboard I'm typing on, for instance, the screen my typing is appearing on (the words are only appearance, just image, not substance, not real), as opposed to the typewriter and paper I used in the Past, and paper, pencil and lead, pen and ink at Times.  Anyway, one of many (so many it's unmanageable, I can't...

In nearly a dozen years've never published two related blogposts the same day, but today's a day. With people remembering this as Roe v Wade Day,  both this blogpost and the other one that pops up are about Abortion; not published in the same post because it would be too long. These are two press articles that do not seem to me to be partial, both just informative, both about how things are changing. Not meant to set off a firestorm, and if that develops I'll just take them down.  But someone said - - it keeps being falsely attributed to Bonhoeffer and even if he didn't say it it does reflect the total integrity of his life:  silence in the face of evil is evil itself  not to speak is to speak not to act is to act And I don't want to remain silent just because, as the Storekeeper says in "Inherit the Wind", "Don't have an opinion. It's bad for business".  Yesterday I read and watched "Inherit the Wind", a little three-act stage ...