On one of the hottest days of the year, when the temperature reached near 40 degrees (104), I found a quiet, shady spot by the stream for a meditation. There…
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Here’s a chicken-egg problem for which we are both the chickens and the eggs. Does the severity of a crisis determine the adequacy of a response, or does the inadequacy…
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As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…
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The next morning was the first day of the rest of my life. I had to stop lying in bed feeling depressed. So many people have tragic experiences happen to…
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I opened my eyes as I was rolled into the waiting area for emergencies in Hospital Mexico. I had taken EMT training in the USA and was taken back to…
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As I sat there alone in the rain watching the people on the other side of the road just stare at me, I started to reflect on my life, the…
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Sometimes one sentence is so pregnant with meaning and implication that one has to stop reading. Here’s just such a sentence, which I read today: “Homo sapiens was no longer…