I never seem to get the memo…
So, I’m at a huge sidewalk art fair in downtown Madison, Wisconsin…many blocks long, booths down both sides of wide, closed streets circling the capitol building. I’m walking and walking, looking at art and...
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What does it mean to be human?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 14, 2022 | Human Nature, Notes, Significance, The self | 1 |
Reflecting on my latest read here, by Oliver Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For Hat.” Sacks, a neurologist working in Beth Abraham’s chronic care facility the Bronx, presents brief case studies of...
Read MoreHeading earthward…
Posted 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...
Read MorePersonal responsibility and living your identity
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 29, 2022 | Contentment, Fear, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
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 MoreThinking about death at the moment…
Posted 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...
Read MoreWhich way is North?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 12, 2022 | Admin, Notes, Self-image, The self, Values | 0 |
After watching the social and political theater of the last half-dozen years, I’ve decided an easy way to characterize people is by their moral compass: Do they appear to have one, and if so, what is their North Star? This...
Read MoreOne of the problems of becoming who are…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 12, 2021 | Admin, Blog, Change, Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
…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 MoreInside every 50 year-old…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 11, 2021 | Admin, Human Nature, Notes, Search, The self | 0 |
… 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 MoreThe “we and us” in “I and me”…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 30, 2021 | identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 2 |
Here is my model for my inner self. When I turn inward, I see two individuals. Call them whatever: left and right, doer and dreamer, Frankie and Johnnie…it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they are very...
Read MoreSo today, will you…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 28, 2021 | Admin, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
…make something happen, or watch? Or just hope someone got the plate number of the car that hit you? .
Read MoreWhich dog goes hungry today?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 23, 2021 | Change, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 0 |
Most 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 MoreA mind divided against itselves cannot stand…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 3, 2021 | Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 0 |
To 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...
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