Mindfulness Circle
Don’t Feel Obligated
to read this entry / i simply need to air it out today as it were / my alone-ness feels overwhelming / it is crushing // i’ve spent years searching for a source of wisdom / a guru / a teacher i can believe understands ideas i do not / one that can guide me…
On Prayer and God
I’m just now getting around to considering prayer and God. It has taken me so long because my father had, during my formative years in the late 1950’s, decried the concepts as he had come to understand them, as being superstitious and ignorant. He was strongly influenced by a circle of “intellect...
The Tyranny of Language
My lovely wife believes I am certifiably mentally ill. She has good reason. In all likelihood I still have outstanding papers for my containment back in The Peoples Republic of Massachusetts. The events leading up to my declaration, certification and subsequent break out of confinement is a story...
Prayer for Yom HaShoah
Ribbono shel Olam -- Master of the Universe: On this most solemn of occasions, we open our hearts, minds, and souls to you. As we remember the six million, the eleven million, the indifference, and the evil; As we honor the heroes, the martyrs, the survivors, and the victims; We ask you to soothe...
Dear Citizen Bentley
Dear Citizen Bentley, Thank you for your recent letter. The idea you pose about the universe being in a sense haunted is thought provoking. And while I believe it is not possible to “know” anything with certainty, it seems to be the case more often than not that things are somehow connected. And ...
For My Father
it is possible that the universe is as cosmology describes / that entropic forces will in some countless billion years disintegrate all that we “know” / leaving only silent / timeless / emptiness it too is possible that there is nothing of which we can not “know” / that our imagination is truly l...
Resolution
My New Year's resolution is simple: I resolve to break my New Year's resolution. Take that, logic.
Dolorem Ipsum
Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit. There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain. Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariat...