“Inside Knowledge” (a Review)
Tottering between stressful agitation and energy-draining repetition, sometimes we feel like a spinning top and sometimes like a winter glove frozen in a snow...
Author Archives: Michael Gray
A Crisis of Knowledge
Decades ago, sitting in a YMCA room in Calgary, Alberta, I read “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was a time in my...
Revising Our Narrative Arcs
We don’t have to scratch too far beneath the surface to see that the stories we tell ourselves affect how we experience our lives....
Easter Lilies
What a strange world we live in. How many of us try to live by the advice given in St. Matthew 6: “28: And...
Echosaurus.
Water Fish, Wind Bird, and Gaia are three ancient guardians of Planet Earth. But Gaia (who watches over the land and all that grows...
Seeing Light in the Dark
I/ Loom Of Light —a poem by Ken Mckeon A loom of light, of a coastal city, say San Diego Years ago on a...
Collaboration
Did the first egg roll down the hill, hatch, and then cross the road? Or did the first chicken cross the road and lay...
My Body is Written in Shorthand
One day last month, sitting on the couch and reading about how Space is more fundamental than anything that appears in it, an image...
Robin Hood or Person Hood (Economics 101).
When Robin Hood knew that he was dying, he asked for his bow, said “bury me where this arrow lands,” and loosed it into...
“The Hunger Artist” (a TSK fable).
At first glance, Franz Kafka’s haunting story “The Hunger Artist” gives a dismal account of time (he dies fasting), of space (he lives in...