Notes Dropped Along the Way...

Manicured golf holes in the shrubbery of the desert… Man's tendency to enclose upon his physical-psychological self. Quivera, Copala 47 It is sometimes astonishing, and often privately infuriating, how unconsciously inaccurately people who might make some claim to "know me" speak to me. Aside from how often they belabor the obvious in "conversation". The host can make most any story undenduraly long and tedious.

Congressional prayer Where God is administered onto politics. Rituals of shallow beliefs.

9:20am AA Flight 836 En route to Cabos, reading of Lincoln and "God"...  Competing theologies of the Being in the clouds. Cabos San Lucas, Baja peninsula Mexico The human spreads it, character of being around the world. Earthly physical life... its priorities of emotions 

~5:10am Reading on Emerson's "self-reliance" and/versus social engagement…  Consciously keeping advanced personal development inside of social engagement*? While certainly Bildung (Eckhardt, Goethe) sub specie Dante is more important to one's self, and lasting, than engagement in crowded politics. *serious societal issues and problems, not polite chatter. 5:15 am Mutually shared, unspoken suffering maintained for years, plus maternal love and relation, kept me more "polite" in and to my "hometown" than I otherwise might c/would have been.  This starting and maintaining – as years, eventually decades, of unhometown, intellectual development increased – a deep divide between my self and society. 5:25am Most I know are "continent" rather than "island". Including in their thoughts, emotions, opinions… Few men (or women) are an island. 1:45pm Competing rhetorics of American society 8:02pm Observing and respect for each other, the ope...

Schadenfreude

When assessing an other's beliefs and views of "God", the ideas of the beliefs, these "realities" are so "ethereal", so distant to the shared daily physical, social, personal lives and minds, that they are hardly treated with much seriousness. Tolerated…even lauded, if the beliefs are not too embarrassing and/or loud.