6 days agoForaging in San JoseI’ve spent the better part of the winter in California, arriving at the first of the year in a rare atmospheric river producing gale winds, crashing surf, mudslides, and wide-spread flooding. Now we are enduring our eleventh such event, predicted to grow worse over the first half of the week. …3 min read3 min read
May 5, 2022Are we doing it again: Whitewashing our PastStories are all important, something I’ve written about before. In “The World is Made of Stories,” David Loy shows how stories allow us to make sense of the world and teach us what is real, what is valuable, and what is possible. Being able to tell stories is a significant…Covid4 min readCovid4 min read
Apr 21, 2022One for All, All for OneOne for All, All for One I was mesmerized by a scene I saw on TV at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: A group of neighbors with rifles guarding a suburban street leading into Kyiv against approaching tanks, their faces illuminated by fires they had lit in…Vietnam3 min readVietnam3 min read
Mar 21, 2022Seeking New Prophets: Bob Dylan and Volodymyr Zelenskyy?I believe in science and the scientific method, testing each hypothesis to see if it is true. And, most important, as more evidence accumulates, changing the theory to stay in synch. There is no doubt the phenomena science studies, it knows well. But for the rest, it knows not. That’s…Ukraine Crisis4 min readUkraine Crisis4 min read
Mar 10, 2022A Rant: Finding our Way HomeI’ve written about how wonderful the Hope Lodge is, a compassionate and revitalizing pitstop while enduring the barren desert of radiation and toxic chemicals. But still, it was not home. As a result, I’m beginning to feel like a plant marooned in a plastic pot, uprooted from my native soil…Sense Of Place4 min readSense Of Place4 min read
Feb 28, 2022E. B. White on My MindI sometimes berate myself for the amount of time I spend trying to write. I have no trouble coming up with an idea, but as I write, another thought pops up, and then another, until pretty soon, I’ve composed a jumbled and inarticulate mess. …Eb White3 min readEb White3 min read
Feb 20, 2022The Downfalls of Smart TechnologyMy partner has a smartwatch, and it enriches her life because she is mindful about how she uses it. I used to be among the first to embrace new technology but now feel increasingly threatened by it, prompting me to build a seawall against this onrushing digital tide. While I…Buddhism3 min readBuddhism3 min read
Feb 20, 2022The Embodied Mind: A New Way of ThinkingIn America, we place individual rights over the needs of society, probably more than any other country. We place human beings over nature. We place mind over body. And we worship our free-market economic system requiring perpetual growth — which exists nowhere else in nature except in cancer. That’s the…Buddhism3 min readBuddhism3 min read
Feb 20, 2022Born of Uncertainty a New Day is DawningNo wonder we are beside ourselves, confronting a whole menagerie of 800-pound gorillas: the never-ending Covid pandemic, impending war with Russia, climate change disaster, and fundamental challenges to our democracy, to name just a few. …Covid 193 min readCovid 193 min read
Feb 20, 2022Befriending My Winter of DiscontentWandering through life for the last 76 years, I’ve wintered in various places: from cruising the rivers of Vietnam to laying water lines in the frozen sand of Cape Cod to vacationing off-grid in New Mexico at 7200 feet. But this Winter has been unique, spending six weeks at the…Wintering4 min readWintering4 min read
