Monthly Archives: May 2017

The world is too much with us: late and soon,/getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. –William Wordsworth Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. –Henry David Thoreau Money is congealed energy and releasing it … Continue reading →

17 mummies dug up in Egypt (Google)

(can be enlarged with your computer’s/phone’s zoom feature)

(A ‘Personal Record’ to Age 25) To understand oneself–to know how one came to believe and value what one does. Means an excavation of signposts or trail markings from the past. In my case, it means the literature I read … Continue reading →

To live large means to live free, imaginatively, creatively. Given the fact of nonstop change, process, the passing of time, contexts–and the limits and limitations these impose on the individual. Freedom is possible with such things as ‘enough’/available money, being … Continue reading →

What things most urgently need attending to? What could/should be done while there is time, will, and opportunity? What missing pieces, if any, need attending to? What unfulfilled dreams or projects in process?

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”

-Life is not perfect. People are not perfect. There are many dualities (e.g., appearance and reality, good and evil, individual and society) built into life, individuals, and relationships. For this reason, there will be mixed feelings and conflicts in m/any … Continue reading →

What Viktor Frankl wrote of–Which interesting possibility will I bring into being today? Paraphrasing a doctor talking to an overly anxious patient: We’re all going to die. Some today, some tomorrow, some later, all eventually. ………………………………………………………. Two points which set … Continue reading →

(based on Monet’s “Terrace at Sainte-Adresse”) I am just such a man who sits alone on latticed chairs of afternoon terraces considering the bay. I don’t much mind being the only tourist here who truly notes the bobbing white boats … Continue reading →