Last Day of Lent

 Saturday had been productive, mostly. I swept the apartment after I got up around 6:30 AM, then I went off to the laundry, That was done a little after 9.

I made it to BSU around 9:30. So far I have survived crashes from Firefox and Chrome to get some of the email read and a few blog posts written. Still too much to do.

I am under the gun. Today is the last of Lent; tonight at 11 pm will be the Pascha service at St. George's.

Tomorrow is the polygraph. MW is delivering me there. I promised her my version of pork and beans, and that means I need to get to the grocery tonight.

BSU graduates came and have gone. One student belched like a truck driver while I was doing a post on third-person narrators. She cracked me up.

I found Reimagining balance probably too complex for; certainly too complex for easy remarks; too fascinating not to pass along. One sample may explain my reaction:

It begins with recognisable elements from Aristotelian physics, but there is something deeper within it that pulls and pushes the pieces into a new formal arrangement, allowing him to reimagine the quantity of earth above the waters at any moment as an aggregate product of systematic activity in perpetual equilibrium, rather than the result of a purposeful order, minutely managed by an overarching Intelligence. The deeper element underlying Buridan’s profound re-imagining and re-thinking here is not a concrete, expressible idea of balance (which he never mentions) but rather, as I have argued, a charged new sense of the potentialities of balance, active beneath the level of conscious recognition. And yet it is capable of literally moving the Earth and, in the process, radically redefining how the natural world works and succeeds in maintaining itself in order.

And another crash while running through the e-mail. 

I need to wrap up and get out of here. One more post and I will be gone.

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