Motus Mentis

After nearly a month in Thailand, we are back in Wellfleet at last. It took us 38 hours of traveling just to get home, and together with a 180° day/night phase-reversal, we’re pretty whipped. Thailand was a pretty place, the food was good, and the people seemed unvaryingly friendly, kind-hearted, and cheerful, but it was so hot and humid that I soon found myself longing for the crisp clean sea air of January in the Outer Cape. I’m glad to have seen Thailand at last, and it was wonderful to spend time with my daughter, her husband, and our three grandsons, but at bottom I have too much of a Northern genome for tropical climes, and I won’t be hurrying back. (Indeed, I seem to be less and less interested in traveling at all as I get older, despite finally having the time and the means to travel as much as I like. I’ve been to a lot of places in my life, and these days I’m perfectly happy here at home.)

I haven’t written much at all in what seems the better part of a year now, and I’m still trying to remember how it’s done, and to get the mental muscles limbered up. For now I’ll just post a few links while I figure out what sort of things I’d like to address going forward.

— Here’s a fine meditation on the Meaning of Life by our friend Bill Vallicella.

— The blogger “Moon of Alabama” explains why a NATO ground assault in Ukraine won’t be happening.

— From a fascinating YouTube channel: a video showing you how to make a fine set of loudspeakers.

— Red meat is good for you. (But you already knew that.)

— A tour of my alma mater, Power Station Studios, now renovated under new ownership. I spent countless thousands of hours in these rooms, and helped build some of them.

— Well, duh. (If only someone had given some sort of warning!)