One of my best friends lost a son last year. His partner lost a beloved ex-partner the year before. Both are what I consider enlightened beings, with past career experience in education, counseling, and personal growth, now running a successful company. Why them? My first thought is, they were ready…
Tag: essays
Narrative Stillness
Tragedy plus time equals comedy. —Steve Allen The bipolar condition describes the fate of humans gifted with the capacity for pleasure and pain, good and evil, ecstasy and agony. If every life is a storyline, then we have to ask, why that story? Can it be told, even described in…
Is vs. Should: The Quantum Paradox
When I outline the keywords describing my vision or worldview at the present time (heading into 2016), I come across a snake in the garden: the question of evil, the inevitability of “death and taxes,” the seeming perpetual conflicts of politics and scourge of war, greed, exploitation and oppression. How…
Androgyny, Chaos Theory and Microhydro Systems
- journal entry, circa 2000 Went to fix the alternator today. It was the old, original problem raising its gnarled head again. The shoe-goo solution: make it off-beat, to keep the groove running smooth. See, if we weren't gendered, the balanced center would start to wobble off course eventually: because…