Meeting February 1

Please check the Fayette County Public Schools web page and the OLLI Inclement Weather Policy, but I believe the weather will break by Friday.

For our next meeting, for Spring 2019, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, February 1.  The place is on Palumbo.

Our topic this week may be selected from the following (the first item is the planned topic):

-- What Book have you just finished?

-- Usability

-- Political correctness

-- Migration

-- Artificial Intelligence

-- Declining Average Life Expectancy

-- Objectivism (ex: Ayn Rand)

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com.

See the SIG web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/   

Hope -- Poems

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

BY EMILY DICKINSON

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops - at all

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm

I’ve heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest Sea

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

---

Hope

by Lisel Mueller

It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
     it shakes sleep from its eyes
     and drops from mushroom gills,
          it explodes in the starry heads
          of dandelions turned sages,
               it sticks to the wings of green angels
               that sail from the tops of maples.

It sprouts in each occluded eye
of the many-eyed potato,
     it lives in each earthworm segment
     surviving cruelty,
          it is the motion that runs
          from the eyes to the tail of a dog,
               it is the mouth that inflates the lungs
               of the child that has just been born.

It is the singular gift
we cannot destroy in ourselves,
the argument that refutes death,
the genius that invents the future,
all we know of God.

It is the serum which makes us swear
not to betray one another;
it is in this poem, trying to speak.

“Hope” by Lisel Mueller from Alive Together. © Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Meeting January 25

For our next meeting, for Spring 2019, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, January 25.  The place is on Palumbo.

Our topic this week may be selected from the following (the first item is the planned topic):

-- the origin of the concept & early history of Hope & its subsequent evolution to contemporary times
-- Usability
-- What Book have you just finished?
-- Political correctness
-- Migration
-- Artificial Intelligence
-- Declining Average Life Expectancy
-- Objectivism (ex: Ayn Rand)

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com.

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman

Timothy Egan

Tracy Kidder

John Burningham

Grateful.org

Daniel Dennett on Rock, Paper, Scissors

https://youtu.be/PH2OiAf-1yU

Hope at SEP

https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=Hope

First Meeting Spring 2019 -- 1/18/2019

For our first meeting, for Spring 2019, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, January 18.  The place is on Palumbo.

Our topic this week may be selected from the following (the first item is the planned topic):

-- the origin of the concept & early history of Hope & its subsequent evolution to contemporary times
-- Usability
-- What Book have you just finished?
-- Political correctness
-- Migration
-- Artificial Intelligence
-- Declining Average Life Expectancy
-- Objectivism (Ayn Rand)

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com.

See the SIG web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/