Posted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 23, 2017 | identity, Notes, Search | 6 |
Back when the idea of retirement was just a distant glimmer, I often considered what it would mean. Like most, I usually thought about free time and how I would use it. Surprisingly, though, six years “post-career,”...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 13, 2017 | Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search | 4 |
For the last couple of months, I’ve been studying blues on the guitar, specifically delta blues out of the deep South…blues out of poverty, disenfranchisement, rootlessness, lonesomeness in the midst of others....
Read MoreIt was disorienting, and not easy to do. I’ve never lived in a world without me in it. Disconcertingly, it didn’t seem much different than this one. .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 18, 2017 | History, Notes, Search | 3 |
This is a quote from Yuval Noah Harari’s “From Animals Into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind.” Mine is a “draft edition,” without a cited publisher, but I’m pretty sure it was finally...
Read MoreThe quote below is from Chapter 1 of “The Power of Myth,” the compiled transcripts of conversations between Campbell and Bill Moyers in 1985-86. These video interviews were edited into the subsequent PBS series...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 20, 2016 | Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Reality, Search | 2 |
This is a followup to my last post, because it seems mildly incomplete. I should have perhaps mentioned empathy. Empathy seems to me the only means of truly communicating with anyone, of understanding them. It’s what...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 20, 2016 | Belief, Happiness, Notes, Other people, Reality, Search | 0 |
Coming back from Europe last week reminded me of coming back from Chile and the Peace Corps back in 1980. This time I was only gone five months, back then it had been 30. Trying to explain to anyone what I had experienced was...
Read MoreBecause of its breadth and detail, this is among the more difficult books I’ve tackled. In brief, Armstrong reviews the theological histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three related monotheistic traditions....
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