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Ayn Rand: The Failure of Mind as God

From my blog Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was the great white hope of atheists determined to commandeer rationality. Her philosophy, “Objectivism,” was unique in its separation from the sensualists and its rejection of relativism. She did, nevertheless, hold...

“A Constellation of Graces”

From my blog I am unsure why the idea of beauty embarrasses me, as though my thoughts are too defective to confess. Often it seems to me that my beauty receptors process input in blunt chunks. Objects–dwellings, clothing, the stuff of life–engage me with...

Autumn Color and the Death of the Amish Children

From my blog Thou art good, and doest good…Ps 119:68 Colors converge toward copper here, passing red, not quite gold. Our chickens are deep golden-buff and scarlet-combed. Crimson-leaved blueberries and cayenne-orange mountain ash berries, saturated in...