Memoir
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In The Mountains, Again.
We’ve been in the mountains only two weeks. My lungs are trying to figure out what’s going on. The morning run-walk up the mountainside is a bit more run than walk recently, but the difference is hardly discernable. Lucy too is lagging, but occasionally gets a surge and charges ahead during our morning outing. A Continue reading
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My cousin Neal.
One of my hero philosophers said that the length or brevity of a life is of little importance in the grand scheme of things. What is important, however, is how the life is lived. Continue reading
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Consumption Rejected
It is Black Friday, our new national holiday. Today we are encouraged to attend the Church of Eternal Retail and asked to take communion at the altar of consumption. I was once a dues paying member of this church. I sat in the pew up front, where the big consumers sit, the ones with fancy Continue reading
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How to Think
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Did you hear the one about Jesus Christ, Moses, and the Zen Master?
Red Feather Lakes, CO., el 8800 Did you hear the one about Jesus Christ, Moses, and the Zen Master? Jesus Christ, Moses, and a Zen Master were out on pilgrimage. They were trekking through a remote valley when they came to a river. The bridge they hoped to cross had been washed away in a Continue reading
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“I’m having a good day.”
Two days ago my two-year old granddaughter said something that I’ve been thinking a lot about. We were walking to the park. Her little hand was wrapped around my extended finger. She was looking straight ahead and it was a sunny afternoon. “I’m having a good day,” she said, apropos of nothing. Imagine that. I’m Continue reading
...the house I live in... 