Meditations

I didn’t know what to expect yesterday at my sitting spot in Lower Park after coming upon a young man smoking pot there a few days ago. But I was…

Presuming that Barack Obama has won another term, can he offer a new vision for America and the world? Ironically, given his rhetorical skills and ‘transformational’ candidacy, his first term…

I don’t really like the word ‘mystical.’ It’s imprecise, and full of contradictory meanings, from divine to derisive. But carefully considered, the word may point to a limitless uncharted territory…

Following the epic (dare I say ‘biblical’) hurricane/nor’easter that slammed the entire east coast of the United States, killing scores and causing upwards of 50 billion dollars damage, the lyrics…

The US presidential debates are over, and we’re finally in the final stretch before this interminable election ends on November 4th. It’s been a soul-numbing two-year campaign that’s made even…

“The greatest triumph of the devil in the modern age is convincing people he doesn’t exist.” I don’t remember the author of that memorable quote, but it encapsulates the problem…

Psychology, as a discipline and as a healing profession, has become a grab bag of inchoate and often incoherent theories, philosophies, and treatments. It is fair and necessary to ask:…

It’s a clear fall morning in the parkland, and the sun is at 45 degrees over a huge, twin-trunked sycamore on the other side of the stream. Large, heart-shaped leaves…