the past

On one of the hottest days of the year, when the temperature reached near 40 degrees (104), I found a quiet, shady spot by the stream for a meditation. There…

Here’s a chicken-egg problem for which we are both the chickens and the eggs. Does the severity of a crisis determine the adequacy of a response, or does the inadequacy…

As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…

The next morning was the first day of the rest of my life.  I had to stop lying in bed feeling depressed. So many people have tragic experiences happen to…

I opened my eyes as I was rolled into the waiting area for emergencies in Hospital Mexico.  I had taken EMT training in the USA and was taken back to…

As I sat there alone in the rain watching the people on the other side of the road just stare at me, I started to reflect on my life, the…

Sometimes one sentence is so pregnant with meaning and implication that one has to stop reading. Here’s just such a sentence, which I read today: “Homo sapiens was no longer…