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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

Grace, Grit, and a Hearing Aid

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on July 12, 2025August 20, 2026
Switzerland, South Africa, and Japan
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Echoes of Travel, Shadows of Time

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on July 7, 2025August 10, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

A Changed Mind: On What Issue did I Change my Mind

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on June 30, 2025August 12, 2026
Prism
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

What Remains When All Else Fades

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on June 12, 2025September 22, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Books That Left Their Mark

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on June 3, 2025October 12, 2025
Ovid banished from Rome
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

OVID: “It is convenient there should be Gods”

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on May 30, 2025August 1, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

An Octogenarian’s Farewell to a Lost Friend

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on May 24, 2025August 17, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

A Farewell in Silence: Mahler’s Ninth in Amsterdam

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on May 23, 2025August 19, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

My “Octogenarian” Blog

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on May 17, 2025May 31, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Ten Years? Let’s Not Tempt the Gods

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on April 21, 2025August 1, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Fleeting Blossoms, Enduring Words: A Reflection on The Tale of Genji

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on April 4, 2025July 6, 2026
  • Memory, Meaning, and Continuity

Morning Rituals and Reflections

  • by WJJH
  • Posted on April 1, 2025August 6, 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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