Loneliness is part of the human condition. There is an intense loneliness that we all feel at times, and that, counter-intuitively, can only be remedied by solitude. It seems we can become so attuned to external stimuli that we lose contact with our own selves, and it is our own self for whom we are [...]
Solitude
June 4, 2010
Living With(out) Technology
April 2, 2010
I used to spend time just sitting and thinking. Did you? I’d get a cup of tea, and lounge on the sofa, and stare out the window. All kinds of thoughts would flow through my mind. Soon, I would notice something beautiful – the way light bounced around among leaves blown by a breeze; or [...]
Earthquakes
January 15, 2010
Thinking about earthquakes. The devastation in Haiti and the suffering that is going on there make it hard to countenance my concerns with the petty issues of my own life right now. What should be my response? What can be my response? Isn’t it odd, how our lives seem to be layered with different kinds [...]
Living with Technology
January 13, 2010
It seems I am always wrestling with technology, in one way or another. Often I think I am too old for it all – my brain hasn’t been properly “formatted” to use it well. It seems like younger people take to electronic communication the way we took to cars, leaving our parents behind. It wasn’t that they [...]
Avatar
January 9, 2010
Just saw “Avatar.” Lots of fun, great special effects, very imaginative – sort of “Dances with Wolves” on LSD. It seemed to me to carry a lot of messages: the military is bad; America is bad; capitalism is bad; technology is bad; in fact, modern civilization is bad; green is good; primitive is good. Kind [...]
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