Meditations

For 23 years, a UK based group, the Scientific and Medical Network, has been hosting yearly conferences called “Beyond the Brain.” The core premise of the conferences is doubtful: “Our…

The city council members of the recently incinerated town of Paradise, all of whom lost their homes in the conflagration, voted to hoist American flags for Veteran’s Day along their…

At sunrise, the black smoke coming from the mountain community of Paradise as it burned to the ground 15 miles away looked like a roiling purple and pink cloud.

The days seem much shorter now since the time change last weekend. But I make it out for a meditation at streamside before mid-afternoon in time to see and be…

I have a friend who believes that there comes an inevitable point when you’re old that the brain begins to deteriorate at the same rate that it developed in the…

An old woman is standing across the narrow park road as I come down a favorite section of trail. There is something unusual about her, a quality of complete openness…

After a slew of presidentially incited pipe bombs sent to two former presidents and Trump-targeted Democrats, and the worst act anti-Semitism (also presidentially incited) in the nation’s history with the…

After a recent column about nationalism and the first astronauts to see the entire earth from the moon, a reader sent me an article about the “overview effect” inducing a…