Our business insurance audit was scheduled and the day arrived yesterday. I sat with an auditor for an hour. I did little but wait until he asked a question. There were few questions. I have “been through” many of these audits. I exercise every effort to organize the requested material for the auditor. The…
It has already been a rough week, at least psychologically. We live in our minds, and the state of my mind is like the weather. I spoke with a friend who owns a local cell phone store, a new business. He confided in me that he was relieved that his business was meeting his…
The sun rises predictably, warm, glorious. The gift of light is the life source for our entire planet. Light precedes us. What are we going to do with life? Will we honor and cherish the wonder of being here, being a center of consciousness? Or are we choosing to plunder? The decision is presented…
Two days have passed, I continue to be shaken by the dismissal of James Comey, Director of the FBI. FBI directors are appointed for a 10 year term in order to be resistant to political influence. Comey’s agency has been investigating the scope of Russian interference in our November election, and the Trump campaign…
Yesterday Thorsday, when the news feed came across that the House had passed the Obamacare replacement act, I was palpably nauseated. Predictably the Tribune front page of this morning featured a picture of the President flanked by his fawning palace guard, applauding the event in the White House Rose Garden. Emotionally this seems like…
…this sluggish paradise. A human being protected from all normal and natural hardship simply is not alive. We inhabit insecurely a world which must of its intransitory nature be insecure. The tyranny of mindless technology. It is well to use the wheel. But it is fatal to be bound to it. We are trapped…
THE DIAGNOSIS This generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime and can’t bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers. An increasing number of Americans agree that…
The primal law that governs all living: not love not hate not hope but fear Its universality is the cause of every abomination in the shitty chaos called human history. The trick is not to become unbalanced, punished, ruled by it. Any fool can be a pessimist; it takes no imagination, no guts. Remember…
When you cut off arterial blood to an organ, the organ dies. When you cut the flow of nature into people’s lives, their spirit dies. As we plunge into cyberspace and strive to replicate the “real” world in the “virtual,” we lose sight of one fundamental fact: nature is totally missing in the digital…
We have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time— when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest…
