There are moments that make being human worthwhile…
…like tonight, sharing a bottle of 18-year-old Scotch with four good friends. When I’m gone, I’d like to think that this will be one of their memories of me.
Read MoreCategory: Human Nature
I never seem to get the memo…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 11, 2022 | Expectations, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Society, The self | 6 |
So, I’m at a huge sidewalk art fair in downtown Madison, Wisconsin…many blocks long, booths down both sides of wide, closed streets circling the capitol building. I’m walking and walking, looking at art and...
Read MoreDéjà vu all over again – Putin in Ukraine
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 15, 2022 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, War | 0 |
Russia’s unprovoked and ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a lesson on many levels. The innumerable interpretations by any number of experts, the news coverage of every slant, and the public reaction…all are informative...
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be human?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 14, 2022 | Human Nature, Notes, Significance, The self | 1 |
Reflecting on my latest read here, by Oliver Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For Hat.” Sacks, a neurologist working in Beth Abraham’s chronic care facility the Bronx, presents brief case studies of...
Read MoreIt figures…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 25, 2022 | Human Nature, Notes, Society, Tribalism | 0 |
For the last six months I’ve been watching a Great Courses overview of ancient civilizations. Forty-eight episodes covering all early development, from Mesopotamia to Egypt and the Chinese, Greece and Rome, to Mesoamerica...
Read MoreThinking about death at the moment…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 27, 2022 | Admin, Death, Happiness, Human Nature, Mortality, Significance, The self | 0 |
…and also birth, the two truly existential experiences in the life of each of us. Existential, in fact, by definition. Interesting that we obsess about the end of our existence, yet seldom give its beginning a second...
Read MoreWindows…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 25, 2022 | Human Nature, Notes | 0 |
…no, not the software. I’m thinking of the instantaneous micro-slice you get of someone’s life as you pass them on the street, as they ride by on a bike, or speed by in a car. Behind that tiny glimpse is a...
Read MoreI’ve got a childhood friend…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 22, 2021 | Admin, Change, Human Nature, Notes | 2 |
… I never ask out to play anymore. But he waits, sleeping under the stairs, armed and ready for cowboys and Indians, outfitted for camping in a cardboard box, rod at the ready in case we go fishing…all the things...
Read MoreOne of the problems of becoming who are…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 12, 2021 | Admin, Blog, Change, Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
…is that we too easily forget who we once were. As we grow and develop–either intellectually or emotionally–we lose (or simply fail to exercise) the ability to remember that we are not the individual we were...
Read MoreAnger as an innate need?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 28, 2021 | Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 2 |
Traveling up in the (more liberal) north from Tennessee during this Covid thing, I’m struck by how the general population wears masks so matter-of-factly. It seems the majority here (in Bangor, at least) have just accepted...
Read MoreCreatures of habit and upbringing…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 27, 2021 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Society | 2 |
Some two weeks under forest canopy and ocean fog on a current road trip through New England, a final three days of rain and mist and chill driving up the Maine coast…and despite the primordial beauty, I’m thinking,...
Read MoreI think what we lack today is immediacy….
Posted by Bob Adamcik | May 12, 2021 | Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Society | 0 |
…in our lives, our day-by-day and hour-by-hour lives. In our aboriginal existence, we were like our fellow animals, always on the watch…against hunger, predators, toxic insects or plants, unfriendly tribes. Who had...
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