These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
You ever do cross-country? I’m not talking about that jogging sport in high school. I still don’t know the difference between cross country and track and field, and I was on the team. I’m talking about driving across the country.
Well, I’ve done that many times, and I am at that age where the last time […]
Some say the universe will expand forever and attain a cold death. Others theorize that if there’s enough dark matter in the universe, it will re-collapse into a Big Crunch, maybe to pulse out again in another Big Bang. Some cosmologists believe that this cycle of exploding and collapsing universes is endless. Those ancient cosmologists, […]
It’s been said that opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one. That doesn’t mean that I’m an asshole for having an opinion. Or that my opinion is that everybody’s an asshole (though I’ve sometimes thought that). It means that I can’t help but have an opinion.
But that doesn’t mean that my opinion makes me absolutely […]
The finger. I have 10 of them. I’m told that having them separates me from the animals. I can use a finger to write in the sand, to type these words, to pick my nose (past use).
I can give my finger to someone. But that’s not usually a good thing. When I point it at […]
I read a lot of science; physics, cosmology, evolutionary theory. I think deep down, I do this because I’m still looking for a proof of God. And there are none. Science, of all the forms of knowing, can’t provide us with such a proof. It’s not interested in doing so. Science isn’t interested in any […]
Yellowstone Caldera will eventually end the world!!
If we look at the world today, we see a vast array of splits, divisions, and conflicts between and among peoples. Worldwide, there are protests, revolutions, the talk of war between great powers. There are splits between religions, and within religions. There is heightened class warfare. Although […]
Shadow, you get a bad time of it in our world. What I don’t like about me, I hide within you, and I become stranger to myself, and you become what I don’t know that I don’t know about me.
I nail my specter to the ground, imprisoning my secrets on the face of the earth, […]
Me
When I was a boy, there was this cartoon called Tooter Turtle. He was this nerdy little reptile who wore glasses, and he always wanted to be somebody else. He had this friend, a mentor, named Mr. Wizard the Lizard, a reptile cum wizard complete with a robe, a pointy hat, pince-nez specs […]
Most people seek out human ideas of happiness, and that usually involves happiness on their own terms. When we grow up, at some point, we’re asked, through our circumstances or our relationships, to relinquish human formulas for happiness. We’re even brought to question the idea of seeking happiness as a goal in its own right.
It’s […]
In the world, there is no better. There is only different.
The problem we have as humans stems from the fact that we think different is better, and that we can make the world a better place by making it different. We believe we can change the way we feel by making changes in the world. […]