The “I don’t know” of Agnosticism ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com As a scientist of sorts, (i.e. a Software Developer and Computer Systems-Integration Engineer) I can usually suppress any of my emotional-swings toward religiosity with a healthy dose of skepticism. If there’s a “Show-me State” somewhere in the great-beyond, that’s where I came… Read More Philosophy | The “I don’t know” of Agnosticism
Boulder © 2010, 2016, 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Quirky, busy little Boulder With its sprawling, yellow brick university And Nineteenth Centry business district, Spread out at the foot of the Flatirons. Those jutting stone slabs seem to grow out of Boulder Not visa-versa. They thrust upward beckoning the hikers, Promising untold vistas higher up… Read More Travels | Boulder
St. Louis © 2010, 2016, 2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com What on Earth can compare to the Arch? No superlative is adequate. Nothing prepares you for that first glimpse, No travelogue, no picture in the Nat. Geo. Soaring above the downtown skyscrapers, Its satin-silver face reflects The sky and clouds, And the river, That Old… Read More Travels | St. Louis
Tokyo ©2010,2016,2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com She is more than huge, she is blatantly contradictory. She’s American-ish, but Japanesey; Familiar but exotic; Traditional but wildly avant garde.; Savoring but guzzling; Giddily young but staidly elderly. Near Shinjuku station it’s girls in blue jeans And tiny kimono-clad matrons popping into Starbucks. This immigrant from Seattle sits… Read More Travels | Tokyo
Sky Enigma ©2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com A lot of us don’t appreciate, or have completely forgotten, how our world became what it is today. It began at the Winter Solstice in 2033. Someone must have noticed it around midnight GMT. That was when mobile phones started buzzing with notifications all around the world, continuing… Read More SciFi | Sky Enigma
The Golden Rule One-size-fits-all © 2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Most of the world’s negative aspects (except the ones Nature deals us) are caused by lack of morality. Organized religion shouldn’t have a monopoly on teaching morality; none of the world’s religions can even agree on an acceptable definition anyway. The world of academia is… Read More Opinion | The Golden Rule
The Old House in Birmingham © 2003 Vernon Miles Kerr I only experienced that old house in Alabama, intermittently, for the first seven years of my life. I was brought there as a newborn from the hospital in 1943, spent a few months there in 1947 or 48 and then, finally, I was there… Read More Nostalgia | The Old House in Birmingham
