On the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge…
…in the Soniran Desert, two hours west of Phoenix. Easily one of the most beautiful and serene places I’ve ever been.
Read MoreCategory: Contentment
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 MorePersonal responsibility and living your identity
The gravity of this topic merits further thought, but I’m not sure how to frame the discussion. I suspect few seriously consider what it would mean to live who and what you are, and fewer would consider it possible....
Read MoreWhen I lived in Chile…
When I lived in Chile in the late 70’s… …there was a constant string of processions to the cemetery in winter. Poorly heated houses, old people, mediocre medical facilities. Colds and flu and pneumonia in the...
Read MoreI was talking to a friend about choices…
…specifically, how modern commerce and Madison Avenue have assured that we have too many. That’s not their intent. They just want to sell, and pseudo-innovation is a company’s way of competing, albeit a questionable...
Read MoreOne of the problems of becoming who are…
…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 MoreI think what we lack today is immediacy….
…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...
Read MoreDon’t be driven…
…but do move steadily forward. .
Read MoreMusturbation and shouldism
Musturbation and shouldism… The more I step away from opinions about human behavior and politics, the less I need to follow news and current events. I may do so to stay informed, I may even form opinions…which I...
Read MoreI’ve been thinking about self-change…
…and the inherent difficulties surrounding it. In my experience, discontent arises out of dissatisfaction. The greater (and more pernicious) the discontent, the deeper the dissatisfaction. And the deepest dissatisfaction...
Read MoreA lonely place…
Two nights ago I had a dark and lonely dream. Vague now, but it centered on my father’s garden, an anchor of my childhood home. At the beginning of the dream, my family and I worked that garden…turning the soil,...
Read MoreYou can’t go home again…
A few days ago, I was listening to an interview of a Venezuelan writer. She had left the shell of what was, only a decade or so ago, one of the more thriving economies of Latin America. Now living in Spain, she had written a...
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st, March 2016