thoughts on life

Pundits like Charles Blow of the New York Times keep repeating the lie that “the presidency has been hijacked,” and Trump represents “the most extraordinary and profound electoral mistake America…

After a fine conversation, a friend sent me this quote: “Once severed from the future the past becomes an insignificant parade of trivial events no longer organic, no longer potent…

Not a leaf fluttered. It was so quiet and still that every sound was clear and distinct. Attending to the movement of thought/emotion in the mirror of nature as the…

Cars were streaming out of Upper Park as I drove in late in the afternoon during the long holiday weekend. The bumpy gravel road is less and less of an…

Canada celebrates 150 years as a country today, marked by the year it freed itself of the rump and remnants of the British Empire. The question now is: Will Canada…

Stephen Hawking, arguably the most famous living scientist in the world, now says that the intervention of a divine being in the creation of the universe is “not necessary.”

I wasn’t looking for a meditative state as I left on the bike for a sitting along the small creek at the edge of town late in afternoon, just feeling…

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…