davkolb
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Thanksgiving dinner with friends, writing about Hegel and nature, enjoying recent sunny days, setting up the new MacBook pro laptop.
7:41 AM Nov 26th
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For a class on the Stoics, wondering what happens to their views on emotion and reason, if we subtract their pantheism.
8:20 AM Nov 23rd
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Giving a talk at Lewis and Clark college today: a series of intellectual strategies moving from the Greeks and opening the door to modernity
9:02 AM Nov 13th
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In Oregon, fighting a cold, writing a bit. Spent a windy day at the coast, at a seminar on the classic American pragmatist philosophers.
2:55 PM Oct 18th
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Our final eve in Istanbul, an exciting collision old new now working on a Heiddergian Wiederholung of its Ottoman past.
7:59 AM Oct 13th
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Contrary to guidebooks I found many salespeople in Istanbul bazaars helpful and not too pushy. There were some adhesive others, though.
3:57 AM Oct 12th
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Up the Bosphorus, mix of old and new, lots of money. Poorer sections well inland. Majority of Turks under 25. A new country coming.
9:28 AM Oct 9th
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Hagia Sophia lives up to and beyond it's reputation for grandeur and history. But big cruise ships do crowd things up in the city.
10:57 PM Oct 7th
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Enjoying our view of sunrise on the Bosphorus and the fine things to see/do in Istanbul. With my concern for architecture it's amazing.
9:22 PM Oct 6th
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Getting ready for two weeks in Istanbul. Gorgeous weather here, lots of work for the community organization I'm involved in.
4:04 PM Sep 27th
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Back in Oregon. Working on a not so negative web essay on suburbs and peak oil, but spending time preparing for our trip to Istanbul.
5:22 AM Sep 17th
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At Boothbay Harbor ME for a wedding. Great weather in Maine until today.
2:05 PM Sep 11th
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Back in Maine for two weeks; reading about Plato and wondering if our media could ever have courage to label lies as lies.
7:31 AM Aug 29th
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I worry about resistance to large technology among many greens and environmentalists. Local innovations are needed but are they enough?
8:01 AM Aug 22nd
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I'm at a minor league baseball game. Our home team is ahead. It's slow but less of a staged spectacle.
8:09 PM Aug 17th
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Off to an all day hike in the Cascades, discouraged about civil discussion in the US, thinking of Plato and suburbia
5:44 AM Aug 15th
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working on two essays but it's a beautiful summer day; out to the garden
12:56 PM Aug 10th
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back from the coast, writing about cultural change, grilling ribs, trying to water the plants enough, hoping for change in health-care
2:28 PM Aug 1st
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off to a dinner party, thinking about how Hegel remains relevant to discussions of cultural change that deny some of his key claims
5:36 PM Jul 23rd
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watering plants and trees, household chores, working on two essays, listening to the neighborhood crows arguing
7:12 AM Jul 22nd
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