An Idea Garden: Meditations, Reflections, and Opinions

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(A Manuscript Toward an Opus Book of Essays)

I thank you for wandering around in my idea garden today. It is actually a consciousness garden of a large, sensitive sensibility. If ever you care to know who I am and was, it is pretty much here, so to speak. Enjoy and feel free to make a connection, or pick up an idea or inspiration.

To get to an entry/selection: look up by month and year in right-hand column on any of blog’s pages

On Individual Process–Aug (24) 2012

On the Necessity of Being an Individual–Aug (24) 2012

Conferring the Meanings of One’s Own Life–Aug (24) 2012

Consciousness–Aug (26) 2012

Connected Consciousness–Aug (29) 2012

Connected and ‘Removed’ Aug (30) 2012

Presence and Non-presence–Aug (30) 2012

Process, Context, and Choice–Sept (2) 2012

Life Possibilities–Sept (6) 2012

Moments of Being–Sept (10) 2012

Life as a Play: Of Performances and Roles–Sept (16) 2012

Of ‘Missing Pieces’–Sept (16) 2012

Of Dreams, Dreaming, and the Realization of Dreams (and Desires)–Oct (3) 2012

Of Dreams and Relationships–Oct (3) 2012

Of Passions–Oct (8) 2012

On Being Open to Love–Oct (17) 2012

Open-Heartedness and Intimacy–Oct (23) 2012

The Best Freedoms?–Oct (23) 2012

Of Imagination and Creativity–Oct (24) 2012

Poetry in an Unpoetic Age–Oct (30) 2012

In the Knowing–Oct (31) 2012

Epiphany–Nov (2) 2012

A Need for Play–Nov (5) 2012

The Importance of Daily and Existential Choices–Nov (7) 2012

Acceptance–Nov (7) 2012

Proof: On Being There for Others–Nov (10) 2012

Living Large–Nov (16) 2012

Why Literature?–Nov (18) 2012

Rare/st–Nov (25) 2012

The Newcomer–Nov (26) 2012

William Blake Speaking–Dec (2) 2012

Technology: Three Further Takes on Four Daze–Dec (4) 2012

A Meander–Dec (5) 2012

Recalling a Blithe Spirit–Dec (8) 2012

When We Dead Awaken– Jan (2) 2013

The Day, The Day–Jan (7) 2013

Self?– Jan (8) 2013

Only people– Jan. (18) 2013

4 Things about Death– Jan (19) 2013

An Orphan’s Musings– Jan (19) 2013

“O Tell Me the Truth about Love”– Jan (23) 2013

And, of course– (Jan 25)

Alienation, Within– Jan (27) 2013

Role Models and “Copying’– Jan 27 (2013)

Agendas, Politics–That Crapola– Feb (10) 2013

The Gifts of Self– Feb (17) 2013

Life Being Largely about Possibilities– Mar (10) 2013

Of Freedom: Personal and with Another– Mar (10) 2013

Some Conclusions Re. Communication– Mar (17) 2013

Of Easter Bunnies and Dreamers– Mar (30) 2013

Magic Moments– Apr (1) 2013

Living Free– Apr (11) 2013

Taking Charge of One’s Own Education– Apr (17) 2013

Each Day– Apr (24) 2013

An Idea Garden–Apr (26) 2013

Significant Connection–May (1) 2013

Sartre and Beyond–May (11) 2013

Doh! Ain’t No Apps for–May (11) 2013

Sound, Image, Movement–May (20) 2013

Father’s Day–June (16) 2013

Beyond Limits, Limitations: Adjustment, Acceptance, Autonomy, and Attitude–June (17) 2013

Life Beyond the Paradigms: An Immodest Proposal–June (18) 2013

Understatement–June (25) 2013

“ight”: On Making Connections–June (25) 2013

Winston Churchill–June (29) 2013

Taking Stock of One’s Day–July (10) 2013

The Increasingly Unempathic World July (20) 2013

The Only Constant–Aug (1) 2013

‘What People Look for Every Day’–Aug (3) 2013

Five Quick Takes–Aug (8) 2013

On Obliteration–Aug (9) 2013

Of Sensibility–Aug (9) 2013

The Process of Life–Aug (10) 2013

Observation, Anticipation, and Dependency–Aug (12) 2013

Of Johnny Carson and Play–Aug (12) 2013

Of Cages: Limits, freedom, and Awareness–Aug (14) 2013

Context, Environment, and Heredity–Aug (15) 2013

Freedom: Largely an Inner Matter–Aug. (15) 2013

Ultimate Sensibility–Aug (20) 2013

Garage Sale 1, 2, 3–Aug (26) 2013

Night Flight–Aug (27) 2013

On Falling Asleep to Paul Newman’s Voice–Sept (21) 2013

Some Key Points and Questions–Sept (21) 2013

From Shakespeare on Death to Attitude–Oct (23) 2013

On Fate or Mystery, But Still Choices–Oct (24) 2013

A Life of Projects–Oct (24) 2013

Consciousness and Attitude–Oct (26) 2013

Limits, Limitations, Freedoms: A Restatement–Oct (26) 2013

On Fear–Nov (3) 2013

Life as Risk–Nov (13) 2013

The key–Nov (15) 2013

Continuity of Purpose–Nov (17) 2013

Continuing Signs of the EM/D-Times–Nov (28) 2013

That ‘Awful’, Politically Incorrect Holiday–Dec (5) 2013

Yet Another Christmas Perspective–Dec (5) 2013

Government Control: The Continuing Limitation of Individual Freedom–Dec (14) 2013

Deborah Kerr and the ’24-hour flu’–Dec (21) 2013

Of Solstice Survival in the Frozen North–Dec (22) 2013

Antiques Roadshow Disappointments–Jan (14) 2014

Antiques Roadshow Jackpot Items–Jan (14) 2014

Facing the Unknown–Jan (24) 2014

The Continuing Values and Truths of Jean Paul Sartre–Feb (7) 2014

Crossing Hemispheres Feb (10) 2014

Of Process and Heraclitus Feb (14) 2014

Of Dumb Luck, Consciousness, Parmenides, and Reality–Feb (19) 2014

Attitude and Choice–Mar (4) 2014

Mutual Trust, Acceptance, and Openness–Mar (4) 2014

Me and Some Ideas of Western Philosophy, part 1–Mar (15) 2014

Part 2–Agreements with Specific Philosophers–Mar (15) 2014

Part 3–Personalism and Existentialism–Mar (15) 2014

Most of our days are spent…–Mar (28)  2014

Of the Bests, Letting Go, Etc.–Apr (3) 2014

Evidence that I Was Here–Apr (3) 2014

Actualizing Possibilities–Apr (7) 2014

The Performance Bug–Apr (14) 2014

Revisiting Presence and Sensibility–Apr (20) 2014

In the Midst of Life, We Are…–May (6) 2014

Head Close to Earth–May (6) 2014

Norman Bates on ‘Traps’–May (7) 2014

Power and Control–May (7) 2014

The Necessity of The Wild–May (8) 2014

Observations on Mansplaining–May (10) 2014

iPhone5 Commercial: The Lotos-Eaters Are Here–May (15) 2014

Technologies Taken for Granted: An Homage–May (2) 2014

“Go Play!’–May (21) 2014

Bertrand Russell Extrapolation– May (30) 2014

Head Close to Earth–part 2–June (5) 2014

Man and Nature by Design–June (6) 2014

2 Key Acceptances–June (15) 2014

Robin’s Song, 3:30 am–June (18) 2014

Always Nice–June (200 2014

Trouble in Paradise: Hawaii–June (22) 2014

“Context is all”–John Updike–June (29) 2014

What’s Most Important in Life–July (1) 2014

The Death of Hard Media News–July (5) 2014

Cues from Nature–July (23) 2014

Two Years Ago: The Skin of Our Teeth Revisited–July (26) 2014

A Great Epiphany–July (31) 2014

Suffering and Grief–Aug (14) 2014

Living Authentically–Sept (5) 2014

To Cover or Not to Cover Sept (11) 2014

Worst and Saddest of All–Oct (6) 2014

Watch What You Say–Oct (7) 2014

Parliament Hill Shootings–Oct (22) 2014

More Irrationality Today–Oct (22) 2014

A Zillion Processes–Oct (260 2014

Black Like me Revisited 50 Years later–Oct (3) 2014

Thoughts du Jour–Nov (30) 2014

Give us This Day Our Daily Changes–Nov (4) 2014

On Winter, Plastic Bags, Not Finishing Jobs, Close Calls, Luck, and ESP–Nov (9) 2014

The Bird and the Butterfly–Nov (22) 2014

6 Degrees in Minus 15–Nov (17) 2014

Although consciousness is important..–Nov (27) 2014

There are many who glide teflonly…–Nov (28) 2014

Further–Nov (30) 2014

“I am large, I contain multitudes”–Dec (1) 2014

Cyber Monday–Dec (1) 2014

Especially Crazy–Dec (6) 2014

Tragically, this crazy world at Xmas…–Dec (15) 2014

The Great Delusion–Jan (3) 2015

Sans Context and Perspective–Jan (10) 2015

Walking on Eggs: Our Intimidation Culture–Jan (10) 2015

More Insanity: “Doing Our Best to Save Nature”–Jan (14) 2015

The Human Need for Design–Jan (16) 2015

The pork tempest today…–Jan (16) 2015

The Necessity of Solitude and Retreat–Jan (18) 2015

It is easy to see that…—Jan (19) 2014

1% of the world’s population owns half of the world’s wealth–Jan (26) 2015

Dependencies–Jan (26) 2015

“Can Students Have Too Much Tech?”–Jan (31) 2015

Today we see a lot of dehumanization…–Feb (1) 2015

Related to synchronicity and coincidence…–Feb (4) 2015

Death on One’s Own Terms–Feb (7) 2015

The Amazon Drones Will Never Be Used–Feb (8) 2015

The Common Cold Revisited–Feb (13) 2015

Death as Close as–Feb (14) 2015

Monthly Massage Works–Feb (23) 2015

On Living Limitedly, Large Scale–Mar (3) 2015

Where Agatha and Her Husband Once Dug–Mar (9) 2015

Drone Endgame Madness–Mar (16) 2015

Grade 12 Diploma Exams Reduced to 30%–Mar (17) 2015

“Back to the Basics”–Mar (17) 2015

Solitude–Mar (170 2015

Why I Write–Mar (20) 2015

On Language–Mar (22) 2015

Further Personal Observations on Language–Mar (27) 2015

Those delightful memories when we trip over happiness–Apr (5) 2015

“There are more things in heaven…”–Apr (5) 2015

Monday, Monday–Apr (14) 2015

Musical Juxtaposition–Apr (25) 2015

Big Brother Lives in Alberta Education–May (2) 2015

Social/Global Responsibility: Making a Real $ Contribution–May (2) 2015

The Limits and Limitations of Technology–May (11) 2015

Most plugged-ins would rather have e-distractions and faux, virtual ‘connections than have to think–May (18) 2015

Revisiting Personalism and Existentialism–May (21) 2015

Prioritized Values–May (29) 2015

Dream Vision–May (29) 2015

The Truly Hard News of the Day–June (2) 2015

Re. Education in Alberta–June (30) 2015

Three Truths about Our Society Today–June (18) 2015

The most outrageous stuff…–June (18) 2015

Only Through Choice–June (19) 2015

Everything–June (24) 2015

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