Monthly Archives: May 2017

“Dear sir or madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write. Won’t you take a look?” -Paul McCartney, “Paperback Writer” Happy 75th, Paul! • Confession: The “cute” Beatle, the one many girls liked best, was, initially … Continue reading →

“I know what it’s like to freeze to death.”–James Taylor, “The Frozen Man” There are replicas of the better parts of us, hidden here in an ice floe at the top of the world. You always liked walking on ice … Continue reading →

1. What is my bliss? What do I like? What am I into? What am I passionate about? What can I lose myself in/distract myself with? What is positively engaging, immersive, and distracting in my life? 2. What am I … Continue reading →

And with the arrival of new life arrives a surge of warmth, pleasure, engagement, wonder, joy, meaning and purpose such as you have not known in a very long time. And you will rediscover play and, most important of all, … Continue reading →

“The stars are in one’s brain.”–Bertrand Russell (attributed to, by R.D. Laing in The Politics of Experience) …………………………………………………………………………………………. …in that life, as experienced by the individual, is primarily and mostly a subjective affair, and that our sense of others and … Continue reading →

than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering you’re on the wrong wall.–Joseph Campbell (Also, when you’re not getting back anything resembling the great amount you’re giving, sharing, and putting out.)

(The Value and Benefits of Literature in a Screen-Obsessed World) As public education undergoes a major paradigmic shift and reinvention with multiple agendas (e.g., e-media literacy, chamber of commerce interests–financial planning, making money as the ultimate goal in life) crowding … Continue reading →

And then there are the crazy, absurd, unnecessary limits and limitations we place upon ourselves, never mind the ones we impose on others. Bad enough we do it to others without also doing it to ourselves.

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates I think, therefore I am. –Rene Descartes Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. –Thomas Carlyle To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. … Continue reading →

The time is out of joint. –William Shakespeare We have met the enemy and he is us. –Walt Kelly Lord, what fools these mortals be! –William Shakespeare Common sense is very uncommon. –Horace Greeley Shallowness spreads. –Daniel Liebert Ay, sir; … Continue reading →