Meditations

In an otherwise confusing and contradictory op-ed in the New York Times, Roy Scranton, a professor of English at Notre Dame, makes a true statement: “The problem of climate change…

An early morning rain, the first real rain in a few months, completely changed the atmosphere along the creek. In a single day, the season went from summer to autumn.…

I had a disturbing talk with a prominent, putative philosopher in Europe last week on Zoom. A very smart man, he stated an opinion as fact as our conversation concluded,…

As one of the few columnists in America that predicted Donald Trump would become president, and why, and that he would be the worst president in American history, I have…

It’s strange how one can sometimes have more in common with people that hold opposite views than one does with people who hold very similar views Such is the case…

The cycles of birth and death in nature fold into the timeless present as I sit on the bank overlooking the stream. When thought completely stops in undirected attention, nature…

A delusion is an idea that is willfully maintained in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. By that definition, the current ideology of localism, which has become almost…

Two women on horseback, about 30 meters away, were riding by as I rejoined the narrow path after long sitting at creekside this morning. In a meditative state, I stood…