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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

🎻Violins, 🌹Roses, and Butterflies🐚

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 16, 2025
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

The Internet and Humanity: Between Promise and Peril

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 14, 2025January 11, 2026
Sunrise over a quiet Dutch landscape with warm morning light on a wooden table, an open notebook, and a glass of wine — a tranquil scene of reflection and gratitude.
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

🎂The Year I Would Re-Live

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 9, 2025January 10, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

The Silent Gift

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on November 2, 2025January 2, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Principles for Living: Virtue, Dignity, and the Cycles of Nature

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 26, 2025January 4, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

No Guarantees, Only Life

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 18, 2025January 10, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

From Encyclopedia to Google: Searching for De Gaulle

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 11, 2025
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Butterflies, Phantoms, and the Memory of Delight

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on October 5, 2025January 10, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

📖 The Rat Catcher of Harmelen 🐀

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 30, 2025January 10, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Tears and Yin-Yang

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 27, 2025November 10, 2025
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Running Out of Miles, Walking into Autumn

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 13, 2025
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Morality, Pragmatism, and the Trouble with Virtue

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on September 7, 2025January 10, 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: From Voltaire, in his delightful book Micromegas and used in Micromegas Returns: Lessons in Humility - What would Voltaire’s cosmic traveller say if he visited Earth in 2026? A satirical reflection on human folly, dignity, and the need for humility in a fragile world.

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