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