Ageless in Spirit: Discussions and interests for our times

 October 7, 2020 I have copied various poems and statements that I plan to reflect on both to think about our place and how our living with the changes our living altered our being and our eventual end plays a part in our living. I have given the reader some commentary that may enhance the poems and statements presented. I hope you find them moving in your life as I do. My cartoon is clearly myself with all my hubris! Leonard Emily Dickinson’s ‘This World is not Conclusion’ ‘This World is not Conclusion’ is poem number 501 in Emily Dickinson’s  Complete Poems . According to the best editorial guess, the poem was written in around 1862. ‘This World is not Conclusion’ sees Emily Dickinson exploring and analysing our attitudes to death and what awaits us beyond. This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond – Invisible, as Music – But positive, as Sound – It beckons, and it baffles – Philosophy – don’t know – And through a Riddle, at the last – Sagacity, must go – To gues...

 October 6, 2020 Trump out of Walter Reed is tweeting that the COVID-19 infection is not so bad and people should just get on with their lives. Fox News and the White House are taking on this refrain even though there are over 100,00 deaths, many political figures and others attending recent events put on by the White House now infected, and articles in the medical journals and in the news reporting the various morbidity and mortality aspects of this virus. If you accept Trump's and his cohorts statements then you have to shield yourself from this news as best you can and find ways to accept a reality counter to the reported facts. You have to resolve your cognitive dissonance .  "Members of Heaven’s Gate, a religious cult, believed that as the Hale-Bopp comet passed by Earth in 1997, a spaceship would be traveling in its wake—ready to take true believers aboard. Several members of the group  bought  an expensive, high-powered telescope so that they might get a clear...