The gift of another year As the fires of Autumn color dim to a soft warm glow of embers lining our sidewalks, the season of winter calls to us. With its colder weather and longer nights, we’ve come to embrace this season with warm celebrations — family, fires, flannel and food — to shrug off …
We humans are curious creatures. We are all abuzz and a flurry with our lives. Those lives bump into other lives and we negotiate ways to smooth out rough edges. Patterns and strategies emerge, these get built into social mores and governance approaches, and after a few thousand years, we have unlocked all kinds of …
Many people go through life feeling they are not successful. But what is “success”? The fact we are born at all is a crazy miracle – think about how wondrously complex is this thing we called “life.” We still don’t understand how it works, really. We call ourselves the stewards of this planet, but it …
We are all the center I was sitting with my mom, reading my Snoopy Encyclopedia of the Solar System. OK, I just trolled the internet and cannot find this thing, but I swear it existed. Maybe it didn’t belong to Snoopy. That is not the point. As the story goes, and I don’t remember this …
Ironically, although I am aware of transcendentalism, I am not well-versed on it. The name “transcendeon” was actually coined in one of my journals back in 2015 and I used to describe a transcendent form of our species. There have been a number of science fiction works that have hinted at our future selves, usually …
