Winter Solstice 2017

December 21, 2017

     The celestial doings in our corner of the Cosmos often pique my own doings. The Winter Solstice, when the light begins to gain time in our days, is one of those significant “doings.” Light lifts me up, extroverts me, helps me. “From out of the deepest, darkest night of the year comes a … Read More

Imagine Your Solstice Day…

June 21, 2017

The longest day of 2017 is here.  How will each of us spend it?  Along with Albert Einstein, I believe imagination is the most important and powerful faculty humans possess.  So I imagine… …Since it is a work-a-day Wednesday, I imagine many going off to work as usual.  Yet when they come home, there will … Read More

A Credo of True Beauty

April 30, 2017

Diarmuid O’Murchu, a fascinating Irish scholar and social psychologist,  puts forth one of the best descriptions/explanations of Bohmian of dialogue* in his excellent book, “Quantum Theology.” I had always thought of this process (though I had no name for it) more as a way of being, really. When I thought consciously along these lines, it … Read More

Skill Building? Snow Shovels & A/C Filters

April 9, 2017

There is always something new to learn. A new horizon to befriend…especially for the homeowner.  And where I live, in just the past week, both my heat AND my air-conditioning have gone on.  Fickle spring weather?  Climate change?  It doesn’t matter…I still have to cope. After over 40 years in Vermont, I know about cold … Read More

Fame

April 24, 2016

Been thinking about fame, actually the concept of “fame.” I’ve never read what others have written about fame, think about it. Have philosophers delved into it?  If those “old dead white guys” have, it is certainly not with all the nuances that today’s technological culture brings with it.  And brings to media, communications, and the … Read More