I just had the interesting experience of finding a piece of my writing on a website that I totally forgot I had written, just a few years ago. It was a brief essay on hitchhiking in America and the sorry state it has fallen into, over the past few decades. A bit more than that, but that was the framework over which I hung what I had to say. And ( Read more... )

I suspect this is going to be a crash-bang year, from the way these weeks are already going by. I'm anticipating an annual visit to the Bay Area for early April, and it's already time to start making the arrangements. And what have I got to show for February? Doesn't feel like very much at all ( Read more... )

Happily, my world seems to be settling down a bit. Not with any less activity, but somehow a bit more organized. I'm finally finding time to return to the book I'm working on. My habit has been to postpone it until other things are out of the way - which is probably a mistake to begin with, as things are never out of the way. But I'm getting better ( Read more... )

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Well, I am going to officially say goodbye to this year while there is still time to do so ( Read more... )

Well, it's been the kind of day, for me, that doesn't come along very often in life. In fact, it comes about ONCE. And only if you're past seventy.

Maybe that doesn't even cover it. It's been a triple-feature day, which shouldn't happen even if you're past seventy! Not all bundled together, anyway. Maybe it's the kind of day that doesn't even ( Read more... )

Wow! He was so eloquent in his opener, so sensitive and insightful that his audience just sat there . . . stunned.

Well, yes, it wasn't exactly a thundering response. Not discouraging, but it gave me some pause for thought. Thank God for Saltysea, or I'd have wondered if the mic was even turned on. It kind of reminded me of a strange passage by the French ( Read more... )

Yes, the Millennium has finally arrived! No, not the one that arrived six years ago, I'm talking about the one where I finally begin (again) making journal entries. I say again, because I actually made a start on it early last year, but it bogged down in the realization that I hadn't really conceptualized it very well. I thought I wanted to write ( Read more... )

Yes, I have been too long gone from the premises. And I shall not waste space with excuses. I have something much better to 'waste space' with, so this will be a brief detour from where our earlier text had been going. Not really off the track, but actually a very useful confirmation of it from an unusually authoritative source. I want to give you ( Read more... )

NOTE: This journal has a continuity, in which this is only the latest entry. Please begin with #1I think the best place to start, the best place from which to approach the matter of Reality, is with something we all know, but perhaps have never considered where it can take us ( Read more... )