Meditations

Our times require the reexamination of first principles. Clinging to the premises of John Locke, for example, which formed the basis of the oldest democracy, the United States, simply won’t…

It’s mid-afternoon, and there’s a break in the latest series of storms off the Pacific. The sun pokes through the heavy clouds and gleams off the swollen creek. Thanks to…

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” How do you view that…

America’s former FBI Director, James Comey (whose ham-handed public handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails less than two weeks before the election helped get Donald Trump elected), says…

After a week of clouds and rain, people were out in droves in the parkland, though I saw no others sitting quietly. With all the ‘meditation teachers,’ why is meditation…

In the foothills beyond town, toward where Paradise used to be, snow coats the slopes like granulated sugar. I walk downstream to the meditation site on the creek, which is…

Even people who do not support the status quo, or uphold the Western notion of progress, believe that “humanity is walking a positive evolutionary path.” Why is that? Is it…

It’s mid-afternoon on one of those palpably gray and dreary days in the middle of winter. The hoot of an owl reverberates from beyond a trio of small redwoods on…