A Book and an Update

I am reading "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Taleb, which by any standards of what I have read before, makes me feel still inadequate. It can almost be described as a treatise on knowledge. A wide subject, and one he does not completely traverse, but he touches many parts and many of them turn to gold. I think his next book - Anti-Fragility: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand - looks to be even better and I can only hope that its ultimate influence is both strong and positive. He is a dreadfully arrogant and disagreeable man but he is also often right.

What else is there to be said about the present? I am happy with myself and find myself wondering if this is the eye of some great hurricane, passing - for sure - too slowly over me to notice what is happening at all from one day to the next. Coming to understand some layer of life only succeeds in breaking confusion through to the next layer. Lately I have become concerned with my health. What have I done, what do I continue to do to my body and mind? I can't help but think that I have become a bit of a hypochondriac. I imagine my mind slowly destroyed by medication, my eyes and my ears by my own failure to acknowledge their fallibility.

But these feelings are fleeting. Hopefully they are just strong enough to motivate my own tempered and rational action. Hopefully they ultimately serve to bring me back to myself as I have been and continue to be - not as something permanent or immovable but as someone at peace with his own being that follows a long arc towards an end we can be sure is unavoidable.

The weather is warm, the food lately has been great (great Mexican Eggs Benedict this morning and an even better Moroccan Brochette sandwich this afternoon), the bike riding enjoyable and Merry's company always wonderful. I'd love to get greedy but instead I will try only to be thankful.