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Warp & Woof
v.1.2
Welcome to Warp & Woof, a blog from William
Sundwick. Its purpose is to share with its readers some ways to navigate the
philosophical, moral and aesthetic dimensions of life.
It is not a scholarly blog, but the author hopes that his
own life experience and reading can inform his readers’ journeys through these
realms.
He wants to share some of the things that he believes
matter, not “fake news,” and he will offer a frequent enough dose to motivate
you to keep checking in. Comments are welcome. While Blogger requires you to identify yourself via your email address,
the author will anonymize any comments before publishing them.
It has a structure. There are five departments of thinking
(pages) … but, some entries may be cross-posted in more than one department.
These five “realms of deliberation” are:
The Present
… what matters,
for sure!
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The Past
… what used to matter
… what may matter, who knows?
Totems
… objects that
matter (or mattered)
Beats
… sounds that matter, since we never get tired
of hearing them!
Author’s Introduction
Switching to the first person now and translating -- readers
can expect entries dealing with health and wellness for seniors (that’s me) in The Present, along with musings on bigger
psychological/philosophical issues. This includes a fair dose of writing on child
development (I spend much time babysitting my grandchildren).
The Past will be
filled with lots of hopefully knowledgeable meanderings around politics,
sociology and history. I’m a liberal
arts type, undergraduate major in history, and professional librarian for
something like 30 years before imperceptibly transitioning to IT professional. I
retired from the Library of Congress in 2015, after 42 years at that
institution.
Exciting (to me) developments in science and technology will
be found in The Future, along with a
healthy dose of fear about things
like global warming and other planetary or civilizational catastrophe! Perhaps
that is my apocalyptic frame of reference -- and includes most of my thinking
about economics and anthropology. Economics, in turn, covers consumer behavior
and marketing, both interesting fields for me. But, The Future is not the place for invective about the current state
of American politics -- those things belong on the page for The Past!
On the page for
Totems, you will find lots of apparently senseless information about cars,
past, present, and future. I’m a “car guy”, by virtue mostly of my upbringing
as a General Motors brat in Flint, Michigan during the fifties and sixties. I’m
not a car guy mechanic, however. I never
open the hood or crawl under my own vehicle (much less anybody else’s!), but a
car guy who was raised in, and by, mid-century American “car culture.”
Finally, on the Beats
page, another personal obsession gets its due: rock music, from the origins
in the Great Migration, through the British Invasion, hard blues, acid rock,
punk, metal, techno. If anybody thinks this genre is still alive, please let me
know! I’ve “got my ear down to the ground” to paraphrase Jim Morrison, When the Music’s Over. Yes, there is
audio here, via YouTube videos.
That’s been the
concept. Version 1.0 of Warp & Woof launched on Ground
Hog Day, 2017. I’ve made some changes to
the layout and design recently, for a v.1.2 (sounds better than v.1.1). I hope my mission statement remains unchanged
at least through version 2.0; i.e., helping my readers see the “big picture”
more clearly, making the complex simple, and having fun while we expand both our
peripheral vision and depth perception!
Me, with grandson Owen (Oct. 2017)
