Heraclitus on my mind
One of life’s mysteries is why some memories stick with us and some don’t. I’m not talking about the memories…
Tag: #impermanence
Vita mutatur non tollitur
Solstice reflections. When I saw the Latin phrase Vita mutatur non tollitur on the headstone on my grandfather’s grave, I…
The dao of senseless kindness
Earlier I had mentioned that Toto left a large streak along the front of our sofa where she had been…
Je ne regrette rien
On the news front, Anne Mei has been accepted into the MSW program at the University of Pennsylvania. The accelerated…
Are you old enough to remember getting a big Sears Roebuck catalogue in the mail?
This afternoon I went down to the Sears store in Quakerbridge Mall in Lawrence, NJ. I had to return a…
Life changes quickly. This time for the good.
The other day I posted about hearing Cinthia Osorio for the first time at the Poor People’s Campaign event in…
Thoughts on aging
I knew I was an old man living alone when I spent the entire time driving home from taiji planning…
Each morning is different, no matter how much it seems the same as yesterday’s.
Since I retired at the beginning of 2011, our black miniature poodle Toto has been the one constant of my…
Mary Oliver’s “In Blackwater Woods” is a perfect Autumn poem
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon…
Worth and dignity
English has many words to refer to the same things. Other languages do, often because the way the speakers live…