Smoke gets in your eyes (and nose, throat and clothes)
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. The song has these opening lyrics: Now, laughing friends deride, Tears I cannot hide. Oh-oh-oh-oh, so I smile and say, "When a...
Smoke + Mirrors
Oregon, Washington and California are experiencing wide-spread fires. This news has been reported world-wide. In Oregon, where we live, 1 million acres have burned. 40,000 residents have been evacuated and 500,000 folks have been told to get ready to evacuate. Our...
Unchained
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger stated: “It is because of an inclination toward falling (Verfallensgeneightheit) that the factical life, which is always in fact that of the individual, is not usually lived in that way.” As Wolfram Eilenberger states in his new...
