A fellow in Salem, Oregon came to my attention lately while talking with people in that capital city. He writes a personal blog variously called “Hinesight” or “Church of the…
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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,…
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Under a high cast sky, the unseen sun shimmers off the undulating surface of the stream, turning the fast-flowing creek into a silvery ribbon in the late afternoon light. It…
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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…
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A huge mass of gray and white clouds, looking like hundreds of cottonballs packed together and filling the southern sky, move almost imperceptibly from west to east. Small slices of…
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“The center cannot hold…the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Though these lines from Yeats prescient poem “The Second Coming,” penned in 1919, are…
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A reader in the Middle East wrote giving voice to a central concern of this column. “There is indeed an evolutionary process taking place with consciousness, but that process takes…
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Of all the outrages President Trump (I’ll never get used to that phrase) has already committed, the one that made the media-government complex apoplectic was when he derisively spoke the…