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Recurring themes as I write about life
It occurs to me that there are certain themes that I come back to again and again in my journal entries going back to 1998. It has been a transformative journey during all these many years of ...
Come on, people, everybody get together
Years ago I bought one of those “Time-Life Year in Review” books for 1969. I eagerly snatched it up because that was the year I graduated from high school. I was 18 and the world was my oyster ...
Not enough time
I am impatient these days: there is not time enough in this one llife. I need more lives; I have made plans already for three or four. I could easily expand to ten or twenty, all full-flavored...
“And wait, there’s more”
This entry will make no sense for anyone under 60. So for the one or two of you younger people who happen read this, I’m sorry if this is baffling to you. But for those of us who grew up in th...
Trying to grapple with the root cause of things
This is a story that goes to the root (pardon the pun) of the problems of modern life. The cost of everything has gotten out of control, especially health care, dental work, and housing. This i...
What the world passes by
Last Wednesday was unlike any late July day here that I can ever recall. For a short time, Summer disappeared and Spring returned. It was seemingly miraculous. There was a very noticeable breez...
Simple pleasures are the best
Some years ago, a modest and unassuming book was published entitled “Simple Pleasures,” by John Hadamuscin, and it was filled with a recounting of life’s blessings in ordinary disguise. Upon furt...
A tectonic shift occurred this past Friday afternoon. My little world of dearly held onto habits and routines crumbled in fast-moving developments that brought great excitement, but also rather s...
There were five of us caught up randomly (?) in one of those little moments in time waiting to see one or the other of five oral surgeons. They all partnered at the practice I was referred to w...
Summer vacations swimming at the mill pond
What is memory But the seine net of experience. The trawler of desire For a past that was better Than now. A re-created vision Of a more abundant life When memories are good And finely tuned To ...
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Camille Pissaro The “mundane” and beautiful “ordinary” th...
Those lazy days of summer
I can hardly believe it. We’re having a relatively mild and wet summer. Yesterday was July 7 and it was only 86 degrees with a heat index of 98, whereas normally in our coastal South Carolina...
This entry is a continuation and expansion of thoughts presented in my previous essay. What triggered all this was the recent astronomically high, record-shattering temperatures in the West and...
Apocalypse sooner than we thought?
It’s freakishly hot in the Northwest. All-time high temperature records are being annihilated. 116 degrees in Portland. 121 in central British Columbia. Reservoirs behind dams in the West ar...
A story of human endurance and triumph over adversity
The following is one of the most beautiful and moving stories I’ve ever watched on YouTube. To me, it sums up what it means to be fully human and to surmount, with the love and support of anothe...
Slice of life at the grocery deli: I passed a test
About once a week now since I’ve started back shopping, I’ve had a craving for fried chicken tenders from the deli at the grocery store I go to a lot. In fact, I’ve been going to this same store...
Old letters are portals to the past
A very curious thing happened to me today as I was going through some of my father’s papers and documents in a box in a closet that I never cared to go in. I had let the door be gradually barri...
“Accept this moment as it is”
It’s been many years since I read Eckhart Tolle’s revolutionary book The Power of Now. Those words have stayed with me as a powerful memory since the book first came out 24 years ago. But onl...
Nostalgia Nirvana
I found it: Nostalgia Road: The place to go for all my 50s through 80s nostalgia needs. This site is amazing, and it keeps adding new videos about iconic and very familiar pop culture institut...
Across Endless Dimensions
The more I and millions of others around the world listen to the Kazakh singer Dimash Qudaibergen, the more we think his six-octave range and, at certain moments angelic voice, are not human capa...
This week summer truly arrived in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The heat index got to the mid 90s the past couple of days; I heard the first tentative sounds of annual cicadas in the trees in t...
Longing to be elsewhere, our minds settle on the belief that the current moment is never enough, we’re not enough, or we can’t do enough, it’s all so empty. The problem with this kind of thinking...
It’s time to start taking UFOs seriously
It’s time to start taking UFOs, or as they’re called now, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) seriously. I’ve been interested in this subject since I was a teenager growing up in New Orleans in ...
It wasn’t just that I could die. It’s that I probably would. In my head, I had this idea that once I got to be about 70 years old, I would be ready to die. That was how old my dad was when he di...
Eternal Spring
This past month has felt like eternal Spring. The air is mild, if not cool; the skies bright with puffy clouds; flowers perfume the air and delight the senses with their rich colors; the sunsets ...
Book Description
Short essays from the interior of my life.
