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?
Once you find out that your ego’s the source and center of all your problems, you’re liable to just want to trash it. When I was a young dude, I never thought I had an ego. Then, when I found out I had one, of course I had the biggest ego ever made. I had […]
The way light shines on all things, each in its moment of eternity while the light embraces. Light born in that instant. Different from this moment to the next, from this day to the day that follows. Autumn light isn’t the same on the mountain as summer sunset. February dawn a sharp distance from the […]
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’m still looking for a proof of God. And there are none. Science can’t provide us with such a proof. It’s not interested in any fact which can’t be proved by the experimental method. There are those who claim […]
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 […]