Essays
Philosophical and Political
Thoughts From My Journal – A Higher Good
Speaking of the highest good, what is my candidate for the honor? For me it has been the experience of unity, the knowing that comes from feeling one with Nature and Universe, all being, all beings. Out of that as it became more conscious, I saw how ethics flow from...
Thoughts From My Journal – The Highest Good?
I was thinking yesterday about the idea of a person’s highest good and how it would appear, logically, that we’d have been built so that our strongest desire was to promote and pursue that good. When hungry we move toward food; when thirsty we want water: that’s the...
Thoughts From My Journal – The Individual
When I think about underlying commonalities that may link and help to explain certain actions and attitudes within American society, I focus on two particular areas. First, the lack of communal solidarity and its necessary concomitant, the elevation of individual...
Thoughts From My Journal – Order
Why do celestial conjunctions affect us as they do (this question provoked by recent observations of two planets dancing with the moon)? If I step out in the evening and am surprised to see that a planet and the moon have sailed seemingly close to each other, I always...
Self-Aware Unawareness
1-9: I wonder how much I miss. I live in routines and ruts, which is not a complaint since they are mostly chosen and preferred to other ways, but I know they lead toward seeing certain aspects of my surroundings and missing many more. Routinized seeing is a serious...
Ansel Adams
I recently received a book as a gift from an old but rarely seen friend from Texas who’s now in Oklahoma. It was a collection of Ansel Adams photographs of the Sierra Nevada and it turned out to be the right book at the right time since I spent an hour paging through...