from this week in 2015 (I was 71)
Iconic things are the benchmarks of society
minor stabilities we take for granted
I’m not talking grand national monuments
I refer to the daily familiars that serve our craft
without reference to memorialization
The telephone evolved within a logical vision
for more than a century then morphed
into something different every year
and unrecognizable after five
The last thing you want to do with a phone is call
The key to the car or the front door
is no longer a tool to operate a mechanical lock
We gain entrance by unseen impulses
It changes the template in the way we think
We do not set the tumblers into motion
we depress a button and hope the order is sent
All rooms should have more books
than a rosary has beads
When you run your fingers over them
they recite a verse from within
a reason to justify the places they occupy
They signal an awareness of ideas
that continue to measure their relevance
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