President Trump’s Apprentice-style firing of FBI Director James Comey has thrown the United States into a constitutional crisis. “This should shock the whole of America out of its numbness,” the…
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thoughts on life
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And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that that spirit of God is the elder brother of my own, And…
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“The center cannot hold…the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Though these lines from Yeats prescient poem “The Second Coming,” penned in 1919, are…
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“Humans are the pinnacle of creation.” That idea has long been discredited. But where do humans fit in the universe, and why we don’t we fit in nature on earth?
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It’s more than an hour before dawn. To the east, Venus shines more brightly than I’ve ever seen it, morning or evening. It’s so bright that I’m not sure at…
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The commentariat in the United States is not connecting the dots between a narcissistic POTUS having the UN Security Council come to him one day, and making the Senate come…
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The only time I heard an internal voice that I was sure didn’t come from my own head was some weeks after Gulf War I. Wherever it came from, the…
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Listening deeply to the earth from one day to the next, I could feel the change from one season to the next. The subtle shift from the zenith of spring…