Searching for What We Already Know
Here is the first paragraph of an essay of mine that has just been published in the Winter 2020 edition of Kosmos, Journal for...
Tag: wisdom
Life Imitating Art
Last week, I wrote a piece about a cuckoo bird who transcended his predetermined role in life to save his nest mates. I chose...
Why a Bird has two Wings
The phrase (“Wisdom and Compassion are like the two wings of a bird”) expresses an important message for our fragmented times. This Buddhist saying...
A Broken System
Why do two back-to-back political conventions leave us so exhausted, so doubtful that their gushing enthusiasms amounted to anything more than fantasy? How can...
Standing on the Shore, Not Lost
I increasingly find myself remembering fragments of passages that entered the recesses of my mind years ago, only to discover that the bright fabric...
At Badger’s House.
Ralph Waldo Emerson made the observation, in his essay, “Prudence”, that if you don’t repair your roof on a sunny day, you’ll be running...
Two is the Loneliest Number
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that...
Free Will
I have a friend who believes that there is no “Free Will”. I’m not sure what that actually means, but I don’t feel that...