Category: Essays

  • We All Take The Journey. . . sometime. .

        We All Take The Journey. . . sometime When I approach a subject that some find uncomfortable, I am told bluntly, I don’t want to go there.  Some people simply find it untenable to think outside their comfort zone. But we all will take the journey to the center of who we are…

  • Affirmation For All Of Us. . .

                                                                                                                                                                                        Affirmation For All Of Us. . .  Many times I come across something in my journals I would like to share.  It could be a feeling or a thought connected with some of my reading,  but mostly it is because my thought processes were of  things I held in high value.  Such was the entry…

  • An Advanced Form Of Thinking. . .

      An Advanced Form Of Thinking. . . When the doctor stood at the door of the ward and worried and mourned the death of the newborns and their mothers,  he observed the young doctors moving from one bed to another.  He noted also they only wiped detritus from their hands with a dirty rag. …

  • Owning The Experience. . .

      Owning the experience. . . He was just seven years old and hurt and  upset because his brothers and his dad questioned his knowledge. How do you know, they asked him, how do you know?  He stormed past the dining room table and shouted at them.  I know that I know!  And I heard…

  • No Rush To Judgement. . .

      No Rush To Judgement. . .I am 85 so there is no rush to judgement.  These are conclusions with thoughtful consideration in this third of a series. Is this how the rest of the world works?  That they have no inner motivations and can find nothing to spur them on?  Some said they couldn’t…

  • The Dark Side Man Calls His Humanity. . .

          (When I sat in my first Philosophy class and the Instructor was explaining the different ways of looking at life,  he went into detail about how some teachers thought every day life was illusion,  not real.  There was snickering of course because how could such details as study and tests be not…

  • The Confusion of Crossed Signals. . .

      The Confusion Of Crossed Signals. . . A young psychologist family friend and I were talking about the many problems concerning the young returning veterans in  his practice.  And the many suicides among them.  Remember when I said there were many grave problems and one of the reasons why was they had mothers and…

  • Agile Thinking Makes Connections. . .

      Agile Thinking Makes Connections No procedure is complicated if  allowed to draw itself from the boundaries which were once considered appropriate to it.  And any change necessary will be accommodated when proper procedures are instituted. I wonder the comment a friend made when I said I learned a philosophical principle during my woodworking that…

  • We Are Stewards. . . Accountable. .

      It has been about five years since I started my blog at the insistence of a perceptive grandson who thought his grandmother should be heard.  So he set me up on my blog and I have been writing three and four times a week.  Poetry, essays and vignettes, excerpts and paradigms and observations.  Prayers…

  • Do You Hear?. . . .

      Do You Hear?   Do I have more minutes to finish?   There was no time for answers because the little one with a dash was out of sight.   In a few minutes he was back and announced,  I finish.   Having learned to wait while private things were finished,  I waited again while he proceeded…