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Category: Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

This domain nurtures the human — not the merely transactional — dimensions of life. Here you’ll find essays on memory, perception, cultural experience, and the continuity of significance across time.
From reflections on books, music, nature, and art, to letters and contemplations shaped by a lifetime of observation, this space anchors the blog in what it feels like to live a thoughtful life. These pieces explore how meaning persists — and how it alters — as the world changes around us.

  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Iran: Before the Strategic Map

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 18, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

The Longest Book I Ever Read

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 16, 2026September 16, 2026
Soestduinen
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

I Walked in Spring, But Autumn Walked with Me

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 11, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Cold Mountain

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 8, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Voltaire Looks at Us: Micromegas Returns

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 4, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Unexpected Encounters

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on August 28, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Zen Time in the Twilight Zone

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on July 31, 2026August 2, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

My Human Screen time

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on July 21, 2026July 21, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Five Thousand Steps

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on July 5, 2026July 5, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Clarity in the Morning

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on June 5, 2026September 4, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

The Continuous Flow of History

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on May 29, 2026May 29, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Four Books That Shaped My Thinking

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on April 24, 2026April 24, 2026

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Summary: Reflections from the eighth decade — on life, culture, and the state of the world. This blog offers quiet observations, drawn from a lifetime of watching, questioning, and remembering. The sun lowers, but still gives light.

Quote of the Week is from Alvin Toffler "The greatest problem of our time is that the future arrives before we are ready for it", used in the prologue of the series "On Entering the Age of Intelligent System," about how we stand at the threshold of a new epoch—one shaped not only by artificial intelligence, but by the questions it forces us to confront.

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