Times Square on New Year’s Eve, 2020 (Photo via Gabe Gutierrez).
(more…)Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Sniperisms
Not to take away any of the fireworks from my latest “Best of 2020” installment (read it here) but I wanted to help out Ruffpup by making available to you a couple of “Sniperism” documents he kindly compiled with the wit and wisdom of the late Tom Holland (AKA Dutch).
Click here to see Volume One
Click here to see Volume Two
Mega Watts
I am reading my third Alan Watts book, Just So. He spoke at one seminar about technology and said the following, which I highlighted and have scanned:
Happiness vs. The Book
As most of you know, I “discovered” the philosopher, lecturer, and author Alan Watts a few weeks ago, and I’ve been pretty much obsessed with him ever since. He wrote many books, and I just finished reading a couple of them: The Meaning of Happiness and The Book.
The first one, Happiness, was published in 1940. Alan Wilson Watts was born in 1915, so he wrote this book when he was around 24 years old. I find that to be remarkable, because the book absolutely crackled with wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence. For a young man to construct a book such as this absolutely knocks my socks off. I highlighted it thoroughly, and I found myself thinking and feeling differently even after just one read.
(more…)Cliff Notes: Part One
As I mentioned in my last post, I have been absolutely gobbling up A Fiscal Cliff. I haven’t enjoyed reading a book this much since fellow Sloper David Stockman’s Great Deformation. As for “Cliff”, I am only five chapters of this rather lengthy twenty chapter book, but I wanted to share some of my notes with you from what I’ve read so far:
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