Posted March 1, 2021 in Monthly News

The Warrior's Way

Debra and I are very different in some ways. While we have sufficient traits in common to allow for working together, the way we process information and relate not only to the past but also to our sense of the future differs significantly. Some of those differences are gender based: men learn to process information […]

Posted December 1, 2020 in Monthly News

Life's Plans

For one reason or another, the draft of Debra’s article reminded me of John Lennon’s well-known quotation, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The plans that I made when I was young kept changing. Nothing went quite the way I had planned. I am not even able to determine how much—or […]

Posted December 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Happy New Year!

People have been marking—and often celebrating—the passing of time for all of recorded history. As the most easily observable markers of time, days and seasons, were the first to be recorded. It won’t surprise anyone that people living in places with readily observable seasonal changes were the first to use calendars to track the passing […]

Posted November 3, 2019 in Monthly News

Life's Mysteries

I am among those who prefers life to be understandable, explainable, and—for the most part—predictable. I don’t understand all the Laws of Physics, but I believe they are “essentially” true: What goes up, must come down; Earth rotates on its axis and around the sun; the seasons change on a relatively fixed schedule, even it […]

Posted September 30, 2017 in Monthly News

The Stories We Tell

You were born into a certain family, of a certain socioeconomic structure, in a certain country, with a destiny of that country, of that family, of those parents. You are fated. Already your fate casts you into a certain situation. Edgar Cayce says your soul knew that and your soul was involved in accepting that.

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Posted January 31, 2015 in Monthly News

Out My Window

Back in 1965, Paul Simon wrote one of his masterpieces, I am a Rock. The opening lyrics are the following:

        A winter’s day         In a deep and dark December;         I am alone,         Gazing from my window to the […]