Wind-Tossed Trees
“The moment we resolve to invite knowledge into our lives, we have already activated it. Do we wish to live a life rich...
Yearly Archives: 2018
Stay at Home Travel Plans
Today I must visit him. No more equivocations. No more looking in the mirror and seeing a young man looking back, as if time...
Wax On, Wax Off.
There is a scene in the first “Karate Kid” movie, where a talented and impatient teenager is assigned the job of waxing Mr. Miyagi’s...
Why the Swan Didn’t Cross the Road.
A swan who had grown up among chickens on a farm in rural Quebec sometimes dreamed of flying. Some mornings when he awoke, he...
Preface (preliminary draft)
I have to ask myself why I imagine I can write a book about the TSK vision—introduced to the world with the publication in...
The State of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
Tonight the emperor will appear in his finery and share with his subjects a few of his fantastic and incredible accomplishments. Who among us...
Deconstructing what I know and what I don’t know
As someone who naturally moves toward generalities—in the name of integration and wider perspectives—I wonder if I am qualified to have an opinion on...
The Ebb and Flow of Memory
This morning, like a migrating bird landing on a branch and immediately taking off again, a fragment of memory came back. It was from...
The Blues in Four-Four Time (Poems by Ken McKeon):
The Teacup The day’s done, but doing still, It’s a wrap, A mummified year, Full of slowly wriggling final hours, I could really use...
The Saddle Horn is not the Prairie
“Located at a specific point in time and confined to a certain kind of knowing, the self has reasons for ‘measuring out’ events as...