Kaleidoscope Memories
Reading Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Hegel says
Right at the beginning
Of his lectures on
Philosophy of Religion
(A new speciality in his time)
That the modern era
Is split between Faith and Science
Between knowledge of God
And knowledge of the Empirical World
The theologians in retreat
Appeal to “feeling”
Knowing the fundamentals
Like a blind person
Knows a painting
By feeling
The scientists in victory mode
to “fact”
The split between them
Hegel acknowledges
Never healed
Hegel died in 1831
Working out yet another version
Of the Philosophy of Religion
I don’t want to bore my readers
Or lose another subscriber
Thinking of going paywall
To pay for my new snowblower
I am almost 83 how many times
Must I shovel out my driveway
Before the end
By a heart attack
Or a skinned knee
With the nineteenth snowstorm
Hitting my forlorn city
On the Lakes
The great pools that make up
Lake Erie Lake Huron
You know the rest
the heart of North America
the beating heart
Of North America
I will save the quest for both
Faith and Science
To another occasion
I leave it up to you to wonder
Dear Reader
Was Hegel onto something
C,P. Snow famously lamented the split
Between Humanities and Science
A hundred years after Hegel
Kaleidoscope memories
I can only offer my kaleidoscope memories
Born January 2, 1943
The Battle of Stalingrad
Me
Baby
in my dad’s army cap
In 1945 or was it 1946
Or in between
My mother finally leaving her own home
At 84
The blood thinner medication
Almost causing her
To bleed to death
After a fall with a wine glass
To an assisted living beautiful apartment
On top of the building on Bank Street
Across from Lansdowne Park
You could see Parliament Hill
On a clear day
Why is it always
Kaleidoscope memories


Nice work 👍
The scope
Narrows
To a fine
Yet fuzzy
Point.