Opening paragraphs.............

 It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress.  It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.  There is a two-way movement in philosophy, a movement towards the building of elaborate theories, and a move back again towards the consideration of simple and obvious facts.

-Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

Hope for our political future.........?

 Carl Jung had a theory called enantiodromia.  It's the idea that an excess of something gives rise to its opposite.

-Morgan Housel, Same as Ever

Back and forth...............

 Raindrops on your glasses;

there you go again,

reading the clouds.

-Either Jim Harrison or Ted Kooser from Braided Creek

your turn David

Tried and true..........................

"All too often, the ones who are aggressively seeking the theory of the day don't have a lot to show for what they did yesterday."
-Seth Godin

art via gapingvoid

A duel...........................?

Having fun with a banjo and a guitar.............