Category: Mortality

I can’t imagine he’s alive now…

by Bob Adamcik | Jun 24, 2022 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Time | 0 |

Thinking about friends and near friends, and a few who never would have become friends. But time goes by for them all, just the same. .

Heading earthward…

by Bob Adamcik | Apr 2, 2022 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Self-image, The self, Time | 0 |

I have an old friend (old as in I’ve known him for forty-four years, and old as in he turned one hundred six weeks ago). We met in 1978 and have been close since, though he is thirty years my senior. When he was my current...

When I lived in Chile…

by Bob Adamcik | Mar 23, 2022 | Contentment, Death, Mortality, Notes, Time | 0 |

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...

Thinking about death at the moment…

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...

Gone and yes, forgotten…

by Bob Adamcik | Nov 11, 2019 | Death, History, Human Nature, Meaning, Mortality, Notes, Significance | 2 |

I read of the recent discovery of a Bronze Age battlefield in northeastern Germany, in a narrow valley of the Tollense River. Meeting at the site of an ancient bridge, hundreds or even thousands of men fought and killed one...

You can’t go home again…

by Bob Adamcik | Oct 20, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Search, The self, Time | 0 |

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...

Reflecting on John McCain…

by Bob Adamcik | Aug 25, 2018 | Death, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Search | 0 |

The one thing we all agree on is the finality of death… .

I can listen to arguments all day long…

by Bob Adamcik | May 15, 2018 | Belief, Death, Mortality, Notes, Search | 1 |

…but they don’t change a thing. The idea of dying makes me sad for simple pleasures I will no longer have. Yes, I’ve heard it: “No brain, no memories.” But I hope my own brain ticks along until it...

The Dollhouse…

by Bob Adamcik | Mar 22, 2018 | Belief, Blog, Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Religion, Search | 4 |

So last Sunday, my neighbor sat down with his morning paper and never got up. They found him hours later, but from his new perspective, it could have been light years. He had been a neighborhood fixture, one of those guys that...

I’m feeling extremely mortal…

by Bob Adamcik | May 27, 2017 | Belief, Death, Mortality, Notes, Religion, Search | 3 |

…these last two days. I know why, but I’m reticent to admit it. I’ve spent the last several days reading Pagel’s “The Gnostic Gospels,” and I’m struck by the many ways people...

On T.F. Powys and “The Soliloquy of a Hermit”

by Bob Adamcik | May 7, 2017 | Belief, Book Review, Contentment, Death, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Religion, Search | 4 |

Man is a collection of atoms through which pass the moods of God…” T.F.Powys, “Soliloquy of a Hermit,” (Hardpress Publishing, Miami. Originally by G. Arnold Shaw, N.Y., 1916) On first read, this work...

Today I imagined the world without me in it…

by Bob Adamcik | Jan 22, 2017 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Search | 2 |

It 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. .

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