Meditations

There are choices in life, but the independent chooser is an illusion. When one sees something clearly, one doesn’t choose; one acts. So what is the basis of right action?…

The loudest dog I’ve ever heard is the often-neglected Labrador of the lunkheads living behind me. Their roofline slopes in the opposite direction most houses do, which means there’s a…

Frank Borman was the least poetic of the Apollo 8 astronauts, the first to orbit the moon and see the entirety of the earth from space. Borman was so mission-oriented…

Masses of magnificent white and gray clouds fill half the sky, but it’s completely clear to the west, where a brilliant sun slides slowly towards the horizon.

With every ‘win,’ President Trump has taken America closer to open fascism. When I predicted Trump would be elected, I said he would return again and again to the mob…

I received one of those robo-calls where initially you think there’s a human on the other end, but after the first programmed exchange, you realize it’s a computer. In the…

For some reason I woke before dawn. The first faint drops of rain after months of dry sky were barely discernible indoors. I stepped out my back door, and sure…

Instead of scaring up a couple of ducks as I ride down the dirt path to the creek, I surprise a man standing in the middle of the stream. He…