Shiny toys unseen…

Yesterday there was a technological program that I watched with some interest and, at the same time, a wistful knowledge that I won’t be around for the new shiny goodies of 20 years from now. Don’t misunderstand me. There is no sadness about that. It’s just the way it is.

Going, going…

Sunday afternoon I received a call from my long time secretary. Since retiring we have maintained contact from time to time but this time it was a contact I would just as soon not have had. She told me that she has just had surgery for brain cancer, a glioblastoma which is one of the [...]

Mystery

There are certain givens involved with aging… declining physical condition (very subtle in my case) is one, but there is also a mystery. Although the body is changing the “me” within the body is not. “I” feel and perceive in the same way that I did twenty, thirty and more years ago. I believe I [...]

Permanency

If you reflect for a moment you will realize that nothing is permanent…not me, not you, not the Earth we live on, no human relationship. Cars wear out, houses fall down, nations and cultures disappear. Indeed one day even the Sun which energizes all life on Earth will be no more and in its’ passing [...]

Time is the great deception

…and yet I believe that time itself doesn’t exist. It is the parade of events that we use to mark our place in the great play in which we participate.
How can it be that time doesn’t exist? Clearly we see the hands on the clock move around and the leaves of the calendar turn. Surely [...]

Reality. Is it real?

Nothing is real. Not me, not you, not the Earth we walk on or any of its’ components. At the atomic level all is empty space and energy. It’s all a construct for lesson learning, a vehicle for the spirit. Time and again we return, each time to learn a new lesson, interact with different [...]