The days seem much shorter now since the time change last weekend. But I make it out for a meditation at streamside before mid-afternoon in time to see and be…
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thoughts on life
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I have a friend who believes that there comes an inevitable point when you’re old that the brain begins to deteriorate at the same rate that it developed in the…
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An old woman is standing across the narrow park road as I come down a favorite section of trail. There is something unusual about her, a quality of complete openness…
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After a slew of presidentially incited pipe bombs sent to two former presidents and Trump-targeted Democrats, and the worst act anti-Semitism (also presidentially incited) in the nation’s history with the…
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After a recent column about nationalism and the first astronauts to see the entire earth from the moon, a reader sent me an article about the “overview effect” inducing a…
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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?…
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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…
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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…