Author Archives: rdavies

(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 →

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?