I think, therefore I am.What may be said by me, of me, is the truth, as I recall it, in that moment.
This is not a clever headline (because it’s about something that matters to me): Education in America
We are not doing well, America. We’re too busy arguing about whatever dichotomy’s deacons/esses of media and spin are shoveling. This is not good. Because I genuinely hold this as a valid assertion, I must also outline my thinking so I can determine which actions will best support what I think in the world. After all, that’s my part of this social contract and I’m all about doing my part…. The reason education is so incredibly important for ALL of us is that it is so critically important to ALL of us; as a community, a culture, a conviction, and […]
Occam speaks, Portuguese
There is a word in Portuguese for which it is said there is no true, full translation: Saudade. Occam and his remarkable razor, we know: “Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.”
street corner maitri
I love you, you stranger on a street corner you of frazzled face and polished shoes with your vente latte and your impatience the world on a string, incessant tugging halos and horns and wing-tip shoes seersucker smoothness and a wall street journal keeping up appearances because you never knew the joneses but the jones for being what appearance implies is such delicious and elusive prey I loved you before I knew you all six years old and careful observer not sure why tailored suits and shiny shoes “meant something” but it must be important because it kept daddy too […]
Yashodhara
The illusion of self Set forth as other Using dichotomy against itself Via dakini’s warm breath The Buddha, curious, going beyond Three times gone, westward, some say Away from having and not Away from holding and not Away from giving and not A triple jewel, refracting Interlacing, the universe, Quantum nothingness; In which everything is, In which everything is not, In which the middle between, The paradoxical phase; Move/Rest 1/0 True/False Imponderable infinity Rendered a slash She inhales war She exhales peace Replication complete: Commutativity
Midweek haiku chain blah blah blah
The weight of Fall breeze, Soft drift, the ash of old fires, Sent to the four winds Like my tale of life The shape of all things to come Crafted by what was But for those times when, As Atlas, my shoulders shrug… Weight of world, falling Drifting like the ash To rest quietly on ground Inertial gasp Spin of time, passing, Cycles turn replication Occasionally But me? I just feel tired.
Toxic Stress & Aging
The more I research and read from credible outlets, medical journals, etc (what is available publicly that is, the tip of an iceberg, doubtless), the more I recognize myself and realize this is an issue I’ve struggled with my entire life.
Is it Pearsall? (self-validating mid century Pearsall designs)
As an avid collector of mid century modern furnishings and an admirer of designer Adrian Pearsall, I often find auctions presenting items with such misleading titles or descriptions as “… in the style of…”, “… era of…”, and so forth. Obviously, this makes it difficult for those who (like me) are looking for authentic vintage pieces; particularly if looking for pieces that have not been subjected to the value-stripping “refinishing” process. This guide presents resources and information to assist you in answering the question, “Is it Pearsall?” Background & History Pearsall’s company, Craft Associates (Later, Craft Associates, Inc.), was founded in […]
Simplification
For all the fuss and mess we humans like to create in the name of ‘meaning’, ‘mattering’, and ‘maturing’, it seems life, itself, is remarkably simple as a pattern; begin, breathe, move, feed, rest, mate, end. I find that my perspective has shifted over time; many things I once thought of critical import have proven otherwise. Some by my own decision, others by repeated demonstration otherwise, and still others by acquiescence to the probability that attainment is unlikely/improbable enough to make it seem effectively futile. Of course, that is more a statement of where I am than where the world […]
The dangers of our dichotomies
I have come to an awareness that, perhaps for the first time in our country’s history, the United States has fallen to being aggressively indisposed toward its constituency. Be it by the bludgeoning of over-informing, the divisiveness of misinforming, or the profound distraction of both in the national and community commons, a somewhat corporatist, political, and theocratic “community of common interests” now exists. This “community of common interests” has an understanding of itself as an agent in the world; it understands and makes use of information warfare to acquire and hold hostage the intellectual promise, potential, and prowess of “we, […]