Meditations

On one of the last days of the year before winter set in in the mountains, I drove up to Lassen Volcanic National Park, the entrance of which is only…

Dialogue is a word that has been rendered almost meaningless by having so many meanings to so many people. Politicians have appropriated the word and nearly destroyed its usefulness. But…

It’s a mild, early spring late morning in northern California. The first white and pink blossoms have popped out on the flowering trees in the neighborhood and parkland. And magnificent…

For about 100,000 years, since “fully modern humans” emerged from Africa, we humans have been as we are—tribal, self-centered, and with brains, minds and cultures dominated by the unparalleled adaptive…

A flock of small birds lands in the shallows of the stream, and a few begin furiously beating their wings in the water. More join in, and suddenly there are…

Being of Irish extraction, despite my surname, I have a weakness for stories. I say weakness because stories have their place – just not first place. What is a story?…

President-elect Joe Biden, while pontificating about telling the truth to the American people after a speech about the breach of the Capitol by a mob of Trump insurrectionists, told a…

This column by Martin LeFevre was written shortly before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. We feel it is fitting to re-run it at this moment. Democracy works, in…