The Fame Dilemma

April 30, 2022

Been thinking about fame, actually the concept of “fame.”

I’ve never read what others have written about fame. Have philosophers delved into it?  If those “old dead white guys” have, it is certainly not with all the nuances that today’s technological abilities and influence adds and brings to media, communications and the resultant insta-creation of “fame.”

How does one practice Beauty?

February 21, 2022

First, what is a “practice?” How is it different from a habit, or a daily routine? The difference lies in awareness and intent. What we name a practice for ourselves is a consciously chosen habit, a (sometimes) ritualized doingness that is purposefully elevated from our other daily doings to honor the specific intent behind the … Read More

Hope and Balance

November 18, 2021

There is so much brilliance and beauty in so many humans. I am thinking of Richard Feynman, Rachel Carson, Georgia O’Keefe, Rick Archer, Lynne Twist, Brian Swimme, Jean Houston, and Rumi, to name an eclectic few who jump to mind. Humanity is not simply a parasitic scourge on the earth as current pop culture insists … Read More

Wounded World or Evolving World?

August 20, 2021

Are we living in a “wounded world,” as some pundits infer? I have another way to look at and interpret our current reality. If, indeed, “the universe is expanding exactly as it must,” as cosmologist Brian Swimme and others proclaim, and if, indeed, destruction is as much a part of creation as construction, then we … Read More