Thoughts From My Journal – A Natural High
I think it’s unfortunate, even if unavoidable, that we pay so much attention to the early, intense, romantic, brief phase of new relationships. The old expression about the triumph of hope over experience in certain situations applies here, although while infused with...
Thoughts From My Journal – Essays After Eighty
I’ve just finished Donald Hall’s Essays After Eighty. As with Le Guin’s book, he was in his mid-eighties when it was published and like her he has died since. I bought his book shortly after it became available in 2014 but didn’t finish reading it; since I was only in...
Thoughts From My Journal – Nature after Covid
Flurry of snow falls around the camper. The massive improbability of Grand Canyon defies description; it is, I admit, grander than Yosemite Valley but I have never become intimate with it as I have the Valley. It is futile and pointless to compare them by objective...
Thoughts From My Journal – A Higher Good
Speaking of the highest good, what is my candidate for the honor? For me it has been the experience of unity, the knowing that comes from feeling one with Nature and Universe, all being, all beings. Out of that as it became more conscious, I saw how ethics flow from...
