emotions

When I grew up priests and nuns often manipulated people through guilt. That insight into guilt, which seemed even in my teens to be a junk emotion, was a main…

Thoughts and emotions arise and pass by like leaves and twigs on the water. Watching them without interference, without trying to do anything about them, the mind quiets and the…

Lately I’ve been grappling with the distinction between necessity and need. What is the difference between them, and can one see the dissimilarity as need and necessity present themselves?

It’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead…

With both feet in a destined to fail relationship I tried to show Priscilla the love that she deserved, or the love I thought she deserved.  Looking back it was…

The next morning everyone was up and moving bright and early as it is fairly difficult to sleep with the sun streaming through all the windows in the house.  Although…

Meditations – As Einstein discovered, matter is actually a dense form of energy, which can be converted into pure energy–the basis of nuclear fission and fusion. Thought is perhaps the…