My sister, Susan was brilliant, with 2 PhD’s, language ability in English and French and Academic Tenure at the university where she taught, and she took her own life by having a living will, admitting herself to Hospice and refusing to eat or drink until she died. That is meaning it. It is also havingContinue reading “05/29/2026 – C”
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05/29/2026 – B
We all are born with what we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done in each situation as it arises. And it all depends upon what meets us at birth. Everything hinges on the environment that receives us when we are born. We are never alone. We all areContinue reading “05/29/2026 – B”
May 05, 2026
The Maine woods are special places to be. I wish I could wish myself there and avoid the hassle and agony of actually traveling there. Traveling and I do not do well in my advancing years. It is “noisy” in the sense of being an utter disruption in my life, as you know well fromContinue reading “May 05, 2026”
April 25, 2026
I hope you won’t think I wasted my time, and I hope you won’t think you wasted your money (It only will cost you $2.50. That’s less that a cup of coffee at Starbucks). I enjoyed this re-write more than any of them, and there have been many, and I expect that I will allowContinue reading “April 25, 2026”
April 20, 2026 – B
We tend to take our perspective seriously. “Hell, Jim,” he said, standing in his cotton field in Panola County, Mississippi, talking with me, his pastor at the time, about racism, “This ain’t how I SEE things! This is how things ARE!” His perspective wasn’t just his perspective–it was the TRUTH!!! “I know when it’s timeContinue reading “April 20, 2026 – B”
April 20, 2026
Shifting our orientation from getting what we want, when, where and how we want it to doing what is called for and needs to be done in each situation as it arises is a personal project within a universal, cultural, bias. We are born into a welcoming environment in which the common assumption is thatContinue reading “April 20, 2026”
March 31, 2026
If you look closely at the water it will move for you. It is an optical illusion, of course and. How much of our life is? How much of what we think is so is not so? If we say something about anything, anyone, and what we have said says more about us than itContinue reading “March 31, 2026”
March 28, 2026
It is easy to think that the dead are better off but. It is ridiculous to suppose so because we can’t get to the facts without being dead. And if we think the point of living is to have it made with joy and gladness all around, that is also ridiculous because there is nothingContinue reading “March 28, 2026”
March 27, 2026
Understanding “projection,” not as a psychological defense mechanism where by we imagine others to be as we are, and see in them characteristics that are actually true of us, but as a tendency we have to project our bias regarding an entire class of people as being true of those people. Racism is a whiteContinue reading “March 27, 2026”
March 24, 2026
Psyche is known best via intuition and dreams (Both nighttime dreams and day dreams). Psyche makes herself known to us in these ways, and becomes known herself. What has always been referred to as “the presence of God” is exactly the same thing as “the presence of Psyche.” I prefer “Psyche” to “God” because thereContinue reading “March 24, 2026”
March 19, 2026
I fell in love with a camera when I saw a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera on a pool side table in a black-and-white made for TV movie as I walked through our living room on my way to the kitchen when I was a Junior in college. I felt the attraction throughout my body,Continue reading “March 19, 2026”
March 04, 2025
Enthusiasm and vitality are not constant, regular, daily experiences. Boredom, ennui and monotony are much more reliable and frequent occurrences. And that’s a problem because we are addicted to the rush of wonder and delight, to the point of artificial applications of highs from a bottle or a pill. We will do anything to feelContinue reading “March 04, 2025”
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