(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