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May 2019

May 21, 2019
How many paintings of Mary have you seen where, with eyes piously downcast and a...
May 14, 2019
Two tectonic plates - Homo Sapiens and Homo Sapiens Sapiens - are clashing and creating...
May 08, 2019
Money. especially in Western culture, is so intimately tied to health, happiness, security, and opportunity,...

April 2019

April 29, 2019
A vision is simply a dream you have while you are awake, and a dream...
April 23, 2019
In his ultimate human feeling of abandonment, Jesus calls out for his father. Jesus, the...
April 17, 2019
Watson and Crick’s double helix of DNA, whirling around itself, is very much an alive...
April 03, 2019
Paradoxically, we cry out in anger against the Law of Impermanence, while, at the same...

March 2019

March 26, 2019
Since the United States’ heyday (sometime around the middle of the 20th Century), citizens have...
March 12, 2019
February 21, 1955 was the day of my “fall.” I was in a light green...
March 05, 2019
You could say that the conductor is the only member of the orchestra who does...

February 2019

February 26, 2019
At some point in life, if we are very, very lucky, we meet an individual...
February 19, 2019
We are born with two basic emotions: fear and love. Fear inner-directed becomes anxiety/depression; fear...
February 12, 2019
The answers to four critical questions are the basis for the development of a personal...
February 05, 2019
Some of us may know a person with Alzheimer's disease. Some of us may even...

January 2019

January 22, 2019
Language is such a common medium for understanding and navigating the world that it is...
January 15, 2019
The foundation of most self- misperception is the notion of “me." There’s a reason that...
January 08, 2019
We start each year with the same excitement, re-boot our resolutions and tell ourselves that...
January 01, 2019
The human journey, I believe, is an unfolding drama that begins in innocence which, in...

December 2018

December 18, 2018
Noah’s Ark - aka Planet Earth - has, once again, been fatally wounded; its ability...
December 11, 2018
Even though I had known about reincarnation, from Hinduism and Buddhism, from Celtic and other...
December 04, 2018
Advent prepares us for the birth of Christ at Christmas. The Catholic liturgical calendar describes...

November 2018

November 27, 2018
St. Gregory of Palamas, a Christian mystic of the Byzantine era, would sit in his...
November 20, 2018
November is dedicated to remembering those on the other side of the veil. As a...
November 13, 2018
The entire purpose of life in Jesus’ teaching, in Buddhism and in Hinduism, is to...
November 07, 2018
Jesus' mission was to preach 'good news' and to heal sickness. Through his teachings and...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
The ecological problem is simply what a pervasive, species-wide "spiritual laziness" looks like, as it...
October 16, 2018
If the perimeter of the cross section of a brain is, indeed, infinite, does that...
October 10, 2018
Even when we agree on a vision of reality, and we must to some extent...
October 04, 2018
A tidal wave came crashing in on me. Then suddenly I found myself standing on...

September 2018

September 26, 2018
Eons-worth of survival conditioning leave virtually all organisms -- banana slug to rocket scientist --...
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