by Warren Gaston | Jan 11, 2022
If the future has a past, then does the past have a future. If you draw a straight line from where we have been and extend it through where we are now, you get a pretty good idea of where we are going. If you don ’t like...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 1, 2022
All adjectives are dependent on nouns. Without nouns, adjectives are nothing. You can’t just have tall or short. Something has to be tall. Something has to be short. Nobody says, “Look! There’s short.” Nobody says, “Tall looks shorter today.” My natural...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 27, 2021
There is damage to be fixed. Then there is damage caused by the fixes?
by Warren Gaston | Dec 19, 2021
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo We are safe behind the Maginot Line the Siegfried Line dug in, fortified, We placed cannons pointed out at the enemy, Look !!! Over there !!! ...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 11, 2021
“You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have” ― Jose Saramago, All the Names Today I spent designing tomorrow. I want it to be a radiant solar day. At least I think that’s what I want. I’ll see. I set the time for the...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 6, 2021
We name the stages of our very human ages: Epochs. Eras. Periods. Phases. ਯੁੱਗ. The Stone Age. The Iron Age. The Ice Age. The Dark Ages. The Age of Enlightenment. The Middle Ages. How did they know? To locate time in the middle, you have to know two things: the...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 2, 2021
Yesterday, while driving, the car behind me honked. My offense: I stopped at a yellow light. I could have gone through, glimpsing up at the glimmer of red as I shot past the intersection on my way down the road. Chances are I would have safely made it, and the tailing...
by Warren Gaston | Nov 13, 2021
My 50 year-old friends are impolite. They discuss my life within earshot, as if I wasn’t there. Sooner or later, I won’t be. I’m happy to hear them rehearse my biography. I listen, a eulogy of sorts, the good, the bad, the ugly, characteristics, habits, hobbies,...
by Warren Gaston | Nov 3, 2021
You cannot be at home until you leave and return, having experienced the difference between away and back, You did not miss what the house lacked until the celebration of your homecoming when you felt the burden of what wasn’t there. . The eagle goes a long...
by Warren Gaston | Nov 1, 2021
“Tikun Olam”* The house is falling down. Let’s paint the walls. There are termites in the attic which explains water in the basement. The hinges on all doors are frozen halfway. Some think frozen open. Some think frozen shut. Let us redecorate with...
