…is the ineffable anticipation of the young: the restlessness, the aliveness, the curiosity and sense of things waiting to be done, dreams to be chased, stories to be lived, an unknowable future, weightlessness. And the...
Read More…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 More…disappointed by our friends, disappointed by our lovers, by our families, our churches or political party, and even by our country. It’s because we expect too much. We forget that everyone else is as human as we are. It’s...
Read MoreTwo 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 MoreIn today’s world, critical thinking can get you branded as “elitist.” A bit of irony, that, as thinking critically is the only way one could understand what a silly idea that is. But one thing is...
Read More“When I tried day after day to do good and to relieve the suffering of my patients, I was myself. And when I let myself go and plunged into shameful activities, I was also myself. My scientific studies forced me to the...
Read MoreOf all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals. –Mark Twain, “The Lowest...
Read MoreThis 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 MoreComing 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 More…may well be isolation and solitude. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek them, but in the process, a couple of things may happen: You may find you need others less and less, maybe losing tolerance for the...
Read MoreI think even the most reclusive of us find meaning through others…however far you have to reach for it. Painters paint, builders build, musicians play, writers write, wine makers make wine. The great creatives are often...
Read More…where you are not there by choice, you can’t get off, you don’t how long you have to travel, and you don’t know the destination! Oh, and you can’t choose which class of cabin you were...
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You can use this page to explore all my posts. You can search in three ways: (1) Click the Category that interests you; (2) Use the Search Box that appears below the list of Categories; or (3) Use the Archives below the Search Box.
Frankly, if you are looking for something specific, the Search Box is your better bet. Appropriate Categories are hard to develop, and they are sometimes arbitrary and inconsistent. Using Search, you can query on any term you choose.
Unfortunately, when you click on a specific post, it will bounce you to a different page to read it. You will have to use your browser's Back feature or the upper Menu to return here. Sorry, it's a limitation of this Wordpress theme.
Also, this theme does not truncate posts when you use the Search box. The result can be a long string of full length posts, which is cumbersome and confusing. I'll continue trying to resolve this issue.
Thanks for your interest.
st, March 2016