Though the fog hadn’t burned off as it neared mid-afternoon, I hiked up-canyon beside the same stream that runs through town. The path is named the “Yahi Trail,” after the…
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“This Is Not A Drill.” No, it’s not. This is what chaos feels like. The fact that so many people ran for their lives in terror in Hawaii on Saturday…
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On Death Without Dying, and Dying Without Death
by Martin LeFevre 2018/01/13Looking up-canyon on the lip of the gorge, a sharp shadowline creeps up the volcanic slabs on the other side. The light suddenly suffuses everything, and becomes ethereal, like nothing…
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There are two parts to Noam Chomsky’s book, “Hegemony or Survival.” There’s the bulk of the book, in which he gives a scathing analysis of American foreign policy. And then…
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Intents of the Heart, Not Resolutions of the Head
by Martin LeFevre 2018/01/01Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” A corollary of this truth is that we cannot look to the same…
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All human beings short of illumination contain a spectrum of human consciousness, which varies from person to person. Many are false with some true, while a few are true with…
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It’s near sunset on Christmas as I head out on the bike. The shopping is over and all the stuff has been opened. There isn’t a soul in sight. One…
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Re-Light the Candle of Innocence This Christmas
by Martin LeFevre 2017/12/23What little warmth the sun afforded on this short winter day evaporates as it reaches the treetops. Sitting under the dying sycamore tree, sparrows and juncos come close as a…