i – Trash Talk Where do you get your wisdom, your knowledge? How do you know your truth? Is it from news shows or magazines, podcasts or blogs, social media or your own favorite feed? The local hangout is closed now, so you’re free to burrow into almost any dark…
Category: Nature
My Country, Intertidal
i. Chairman Now Speaks I’m the chairman of none other than the country of the self. I would say, “my self,” or “my country,” but you might misunderstand, thinking I mean only my small self, or my nationhood. No, it’s bigger: the Self you attain by breathing away the small…
“The New Normal”: Adapt or Resist?
Coronavirus Journal, Part 2 As an editor with an online business, I should be well positioned to survive in this changed economic landscape; though in practice I have seen a dramatic reduction in work coming my way since February. It has been interesting to notice, though, a shift in the…
My Generation, Revisited
Fifty years ago, I was a sophomore in college: between Woodstock and Kent State, at the peak of the campus revolution. The Who's hit song, "My Generation," released four years previous, had already become the new anthem. Change was in the air in every aspect of society and culture. Did…