Somewhere in my distant past I disavowed consumer culture. Pretty easy. I wasn’t into material things anyway. Later, I left behind a lot of what passes for food today. Since our affinities for salt, sugar and fat are...
Read More…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 More… are twenty-five 2 year-olds trying to get out. (Cue audience laughter) I don’t know who first said this, and I presume it was in jest. But they spoke much truth as well. Inside each of us are several two-year-olds,...
Read MoreMost of us know the proverb about the two dogs within us, the good and the bad. We could grow into either. It depends on which we feed. Whether or not it’s that simple, a few things are true enough. Emotions arise from...
Read MoreTo become whole, we need to recognize that we do not consist of a single “self,” but of several selves. Only in the most advanced of individuals are they in harmony with one another. Instead, they most likely are in...
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 More…people as a species, that is. That’s one insight reading history gives the thoughtful. The same traits we witness today among friends and family, politicians, celebrities, men and women, the powerful, the rich and...
Read More…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 MoreIn the course of watching Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War, I learned something I still find difficult to believe. On the eve of the 1968 elections, Lyndon Johnson was furiously pushing through peace talks to end the...
Read MoreThat title…a saying we often use when living through what seems to be a tumultuous event. And yet, only a few souls really appreciate what that means. We think of something that “will go down in the history books,” that...
Read MoreI spent some time this evening reading old posts here, and reflecting on the many months since I’ve written anything new. The last couple years I’ve been engaged with other things and haven’t had the energy it takes. But now...
Read MoreLast night I watched a documentary covering the early years of the Newport Folk Festival, 1964-66: The great folk performers of the late fifties and early sixties and the thousands of young people who listened to them. A half...
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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