My wife likes to rearrange the furniture every so often. She just gets bored with the same old look and feel after some period of time. When the time comes for us (me) to move the furniture around, I usually ask silly questions like: “We decided together that this was the best placement of the […]
I’m stumbling my way through publishing my book on Substack, a piece at a time. I started with an introduction: https://understandingonpurpose.substack.com/p/introduction-to-understanding-on Then a short article on Why We Think. https://understandingonpurpose.substack.com/p/why-we-think Please do check it out and subscribe if this kind of think resonates with you. It’s free. My posts will be roughly weekly.
People have been telling me that blogs are old-fashioned. I’ve started a substack. I’m writing there, instead. Please check it out. Here’s the latest post — The Case For Travel.
Leave it to John Cleese to sum it all up. Sometimes I think comedians would clearly make the best politicians. Comedy shines a light on our own absurdity.
A recent flurry of activity on X got my attention (thank you, Jeff). From a response to a post about President Trump’s recent “bloodbath” statement… This is a pervasive sentiment — and it’s a sentiment that works in both directions. Truth: The Left ignored the economic statement that Trump was making (involving a tariff on […]
I was at the gym this morning, where I overheard a guy make a comment to someone else: “He committed treason! I’m not a Democrat; I served my country.” I don’t know who they were talking about. But the “I’m not a Democrat; I served my country” part stuck in my craw during my workout. […]
When my wife sent me this article from Neuroscience News, I immediately loved the title. Humility is a rare commodity these days — or at least open, public humility. So much of the so-called “conversation” we hear and read these days is 90% posturin, denial, and deflection as opposed to listening and learning. Vulnerability is […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about a particular email thread. Perhaps I’ve mentioned that, for at least a decade, I’ve been corresponding with a group I call the “Five Knuckleheads” (I wasn’t the one that coined the term). Long time friends, and my brother. Two staunch conservatives, my brother and myself somewhere in the middle […]
I’ve thought of many of the topics in this video for a decade or so. Some of us who are old enough to have seen the rise of modern communication: 24-hour news, the internet, mobile phones, common-man videos, and of course social media. We have some sense that these things, which held so much promise […]
People have debated for centuries what is important in life. Somewhere in the discussion, the idea of “values” usually comes up. Values can be thought of as defining your character. Some think it’s the other way around. But when it comes to any thinking about what make s a good live, values matter. So, it […]