My morning newspaper lies on my front porch, blending with my knowledge of the world. This afternoon, it wraps coffee grounds, blending with my knowledge of compost. Tomorrow, it recites my obituary, blending with my knowledge of eternity. … [Read more...]

Eden exists. Not the Eden of biblical rhetoric, or that of any system of organized, codified, ritualized belief. Eden is not a physical place; it's a place of being -- the middle distance: That time in life and mind that's neither too late nor too early, neither too old nor too young, when you feel, when you know as clearly as you ever will. The young, consumed with reflections of self-importance, indestructibility and immortality, cannot imagine the middle … [Read more...]

Life, the question; living it, the answer … [Read more...]

Karma won't permit unwarranted promotion. The tests we fail this life will set the next in motion. … [Read more...]

Do you think the future is a linear beast, constrained within its evolution by deterministic random walks along a narrow, one-way avenue, prescribed in its identity by time's unerring quantum arrow? Think how ripples radiate, escaping from the impact of a stone upon water's fluid fabric, alike, yet different from the crystalline chaos, aroused by a kiss from that same stone, of propagating cracks through tempered safety glass. Think how roots invest the … [Read more...]

I stand on tip-toes and lean just-barely-not-too-far-out from my perch, anchored by one hand gripping the trunk, the other shielding my eyes from the light. I glance around and wonder where I'd be and what I'd be doing if I'd climbed onto another branch of probability radiating through my life; how different would reality appear to be had I not let this branch remain entwined with yours? … [Read more...]