Consciousness

The new tires came in down at the Ford place. Good!
This is kind of unusual for me, buying tires from a car dealer instead of a tire store. I was all ready to plunk down $500 at nearby Garcia Tires (“Fastest Tires in the North!”), but their distributor didn’t have anything I wanted that would [...]

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Knock three times and be remembered…
A five-year-old boy walks barefoot in a clear, clean-running stream in suburban Virginia not far from Washington, D.C. The year is 1950. He carries a white enameled tin pail with a red handle, the kind children used to play with at the beach. He’s walking along collecting crayfish, catching [...]

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Yes, Deepak Chopra just blocked me on Twitter. Wild, huh?
I suppose everyone knows how Twitter works, but then I suppose a lot of things. That being the case, I’ll just explain that if you “follow” someone, their “tweets” or messages show up in your “timeline,” so you can zip through them and read whichever [...]

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I was angry enough over the last few days to understand a few more things. Suicide bombers, for instance!
Not that I wanted to kill myself or hurt anybody else, oh no, but there was that intensity of intent. I just wanted to DO something, you know? But since there weren’t any torches-and-pitchforks parades to [...]

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This getting up in the morning and reading the news first off has got to end. Rumi was right, you know.
The internet is deadly in this respect. Concentrated “truth” from focusing on certain streams can overwhelm an organism. I know I’ve said that before, but it’s still true: the stuff is bad for me. It [...]

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“I‘ve given a lot!” she almost shouted, shooting me a look that would freeze Vesuvius.
How had I provoked her? By droning on a bit too long on a sensitive topic, the way I do to force the outcome. But logic is a deceiver: the real motive is calming her down so I’m not threatened (guys, [...]

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Yes, I deleted the post entitled “MUD.”
I have a few readers who hate when I do that — or maybe all of you do — but a blog or any other website ought to be a living document, not a digital trail of past mistakes and bad decisions. I have no idea why some bloggers [...]

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Not for casual consumption, however. This requires a long, relaxed look:
What is a human being? A human being is a nexus of relationships: the sum total of the connections among his or her cells, organs, and inner ecosystem; connections to other human beings that define the psyche; connections to the rest of nature and this [...]

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I’m in a write ‘em and delete ‘em mood. Sorry for deleting your comments as well.
Anyway, I had a very weird thing just happen. I walked past the woodstove (a battered old Ashley, straight out of the pages of the original Whole Earth Catalog) and I saw the fire. So what, you say. Well, for [...]

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