Musings of Professor Fox

 once upon a time  time was a figment figment of a people  people who loved loved to engage engage and inspire inspire the spark spark of a dream dream of a world world in a pen pen on the page  page to the end end of the time time that was once 

 the trees in the forest  are placed ever so  delicately by random chance offering  umbrage to the smallest traveler on the unmarked  paths winding and twisting  over and under deadfall old becoming new  with natural sincerity

  The hours flip by—much like the card clothes-pinned to the spokes of my childhood bike frame offering an exhilaration and feeling of speed.   I sit and ponder the feeling of hearing the thwip-thwip-thiwp in rapid succession as each contact briefly touched the aluminum and let go.   The calendar taunts me from the top of my desk. 2022. Fifty years ago, I started this adventure poor, naked, and cold.   Along the way, I met a partner so imperfectly perfect that my life was altered irreversibly and set on a path full of joy and sorrow, agony and ecstasy.   Never had I thought to gather such emotion and meaning from a single word— a fundamental, foundational change both inwardly and outwardly.   Tipping the imaginary hourglass on its end forcing the unnumbered grains from one bulb to the other, sliding unaffected through the neck to reside in a new home.   Day after day, week after we...

  AN ODE TO THE MAP November 2017 The thing is the map, and the map is the thing. What to include, so its praises they’ll sing?   Nations we’ve built, on starving and sword. On the paper they go, with ink and accord.   On the subject of borders, as they change and they grow. We ponder quite often just what they should show.   Yes, the thing is the map, and the map is the thing. What to include, so its praises they’ll sing?   As time marches on, the medium does change. To the masters of old, it sure seems quite strange.   As the Other sits down at the desk or the table, with the click of a mouse, she creates a new fable.   The thing is the map, and the map is the thing. What to include, so its praises they’ll sing?   When author and worldview meet to define, A piece of reality sparks a design. Since data are placed with precision and care, the effort’s not lost, if you take time to stare.   Yes, the thing is the map, and the map is the thing. ...