{"id":1,"date":"2023-06-29T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgwebblog.043a214.netsolhost.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T00:34:48","slug":"departing-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"toward the unknown region"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div style=\"padding-left: 34%; font-size: small;\">\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top: 0pm; margin-bottom: 0px;\">Walk out with me toward the unknown region,<br \/>Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow \u2026\u00a0<br \/>No map there, nor guide \u2026<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;\">\u2014Walt Whitman, 1868\/1881<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The tag-line for this site is taken from the last sentence of Voltaire&#8217;s <em>Candide<\/em>\u2014and pretty much describes what I hope to be doing here. W.H. Auden in his &#8220;Voltaire at Ferney&#8221; (1938) wrote:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And still all over Europe stood the horrible nurses<br \/>Itching to boil their children. Only his verses<br \/>Perhaps could stop them: He must go on working. &#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not so deluded as to think what I say here is all <em>that<\/em>\u2014but the point is that everyone needs to go on working, tending the garden that makes life possible. Both the garden and the tending <em>is<\/em> life. In a similar vein, Confucius is said to have said:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Things have roots and branches; affairs have scopes and beginnings. To know what precedes and what follows, is nearly as good as having a head and feet.<\/p>\r\n<p>And that is also an answer to the question: <em>What am I doing here? <\/em>Simply trying to put my thoughts in order as the events of the day threaten to overwhelm me.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk out with me toward the unknown region,Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow \u2026\u00a0No map there, nor guide \u2026 \u2014Walt Whitman, 1868\/1881 The tag-line for this site is taken from the last sentence of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/?p=1\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgweb.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}