Why Is

knowing what we don’t know

Why is there something, not nothing at all? Is a microcosm big—or macrocosm small? Can subjective mind know objective truth? Writhe and groan means you feel pain too?

Is the red you see the same colour for me? Was the universe designed, intended to be? Is knowledge tempered by human emotion? And time a measure of relative motion?

Why am I who I am and not some other? Which is more real, a wish or a number? When a person wanders, when are they lost? Does pain turn pleasure when it’s the cost?

If nothing’s forever, what does that mean? Can something in everything itself be seen? Is ignorance bliss and does justice exist? Are hope and prayer merely want and wish?

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”