and I thought my posts were being cross posted to here, but they were not.  My apologies, I didn't even check.  My life is over-busy, and I wish for more quiet time, fewer interruptions, less activity.  How to do it?  I am not sure.  I'm 55 years old now and so I figure my time is already half spent or more... What was it that I wanted to do with ( Read more... )

“The state of flow, like the path that bears its name, is volatile, unpredictable, and all-consuming. Flow feels like the meaning of life for good reason. The neurochemicals that underpin the state are among the most addictive drugs on earth. Equally powerful is the psychological draw. Scientists who study human motivation have lately learned that ( Read more... )

It's been nine months since I posted here?!  That tells me I'm overbusy.  I generally post when I have time to reflect and no time for reflection is bad ( Read more... )

I've been interested in human xenophobia (which I think is instinctive) and race and class warfare since I become politically aware some time in my 20's.  The more I study the less I know, other than that people naturally cling to those who are like them and mistrust those who are different.  Other than that humans are more emotional than rational ( Read more... )

An intellectual is someone who's discovered something more interesting than sex.

--Aldous Huxley

I think,
therefore I am...
confused.

--Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh

“If you’ve got a heart at all, someday it will kill you.”

-Rita Dove, poet

Living in an urban area I, like many, exercise in the park.  I was doing so before the pandemic started and I have continued.  My local park is big and beautiful and is seeing a higher level of use now that the gyms are closed.  It feels safe and reasonable except for one thing: the runners who brush past on the paved trails.  They are too close; ( Read more... )

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
“Eat in the kitchen,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am,
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America.

-Langston Hughes, 1926

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MelungeonI had never heard this word until today ( Read more... )