When I was studying history in Graduate School in my 20s, long ago…I had no idea how much ‘History’ I would actually be living through my first 8 decades. I can testify that not much was actually happening in those first two decades (of the 1940s & ’50s)…well, except for Rock N Roll, of course. That was game-changing! As…

As I approach the end of my 8th decade, I am appreciating the bits of clarity that have been streaming into my awareness.  In honoring the simplicity that I encounter, facets of Life that have been challenging over time now seem to be growing simpler.   We were each born into a reality riddled with egocentrism and…

…transitioning from the chrysalis You are invited to play a little game with me…involving a new framing of the pandemic. What if at the beginning of 2020, we humans entered a vast paradox:1) in many ways, we human caterpillars were called into our cocoons…to begin dissolving our caterpillar-ness: all that had held us in form…

In my late-teens, early-20s, “am I living in a malevolent or benevolent Universe?” was a huge question for me. A quite relevant inquiry it would seem. Being born at the beginning of World War II and growing up in the Jim Crow South would certainly have supported a particular perspective…as would the familial lineage of…

“Of all the “stories” we make up about ourself…none are as solid as ‘Identity’”.~ Gene About a week or so ago, I had a realization: that I tend to be a bit emotionally depressed.That surprised me…as it came up a few weeks after my 80th birthday…when, one might presume…that I had gotten to ‘know’ myself…