Off the rails . . .

In the Saytr's day’s mailbox . . .

And, if it hasn’t occurred to you, philosphy has become both conventional and specialized. . . The blight of specialization, remains stubbornly engrained in [almost every area of academia], and “represents an artificial barrier to the free traffic of ideas.” — David Bloor

The center cannot hold …there is a power to be found in unconventional thinking, according to David McWilliams

Poets are those who reach directly into the abyss during the ‘world’s night’ – Martin Heidegger

The journey to giving up one's confirmation biases is a lonely, rocky road.

These loners choose longing over belonging, preferencing being to doing

while serving as eyes to the present in living rooms designed by the past. — jb

Long time friend Allyson recently responded to a cartoon I sent to her. The cartoon noted : “I've reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.” She replied : “My train of thought often goes of the rails, and in my lucid moments, I comment to myself, 'well look at that, my train of thought went off the rails! '”

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

– William Butler Yeats, from his poem “The Second Coming” in 1911.