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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…
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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…
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Around The Bend. . .
When our David was twelve or thirteen, he lay on his bed in the room he shared with his brother and walked the walls in his stockinged feet. When I get to be a star in the sky, he said, I will shine down and give power to help people as they need…
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With Immense Gratitude, Happy Thanksgiving. . . .
As I prepare to pack and ready myself for the journey to the opposite coast, there will be a lull on this blog for awhile. The children I live with wish to prepare quarters for me to avoid disruption again and I appreciate their concern. My other son will be accompanying me and overseeing and…
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The Conflicting Cancer. . . .
The Conflicting Cancer. . . The water runs cool and I soak the facecloth to make it wet and wrung out as I fold it over your very warm brow. Ahhh you say and it feels better and I know my presence is the comfort needed. Your hands unclench and I see you rest. I’ve…
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To Make a Difference. . . .
We come to help make better. We come because we hope to make a difference, however small. The small things, when carried out with concern, can involve a lifetime or many lifetimes. You cannot change the course of genetic evolution. It takes its time. Engineering may be able to code the dna but the…
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Cosmic Connections. . . .
The past is still happening, the future has already happened and we race to catch up with it. This is a quantum theory, that all time is simultaneous. The Holographic Universe was published in 1986 by Michael Talbot but I did not read it until 2015 when I learned the theory I have lived…
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Windfalls. . .
When I was 12 my family moved to The Farm. There is nowhere in mind that soothes my psyche as The Farm and for such a few years of my life, my teen years and yet these filled my yearning for something my heart knew. In my memory bank those years were a…
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Someone Has To Do The Plowing. . . .
Hope And hope is the drug, the elixir, the stimulant, the narcotic, the life saver, the god. That tomorrow will be better, that there will be a rainbow, that the snows will come and cover the door, that the rains will come and relieve the parched ground, that the vineyards will be planted, that love…
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How To Do It. . . .
You ask. . . On focusing, your thoughts, your words. . . how do you do it? I say. . . I barrel down into my center and listen with my inner ear and hear what my heart says. It is within me that I have my world. This is what and where I…