Anza-Borrego State Park, California, February 2005
A House in Tucson
The house in Tucson sits well north of and high above the city center, in a quiet neighborhood served by a cul-de-sac road. The house has a large, spacious living and dining area and a very spacious kitchen with breakfast table, both looking out on a patio and swimming pool with a spectacular view ofContinue reading “A House in Tucson”
Skiing at Mount Hood
In December 1964 I took a trip on the Canadian National Railway from Toronto to Vancouver. Then I proceeded by train to Portland and bus to San Francisco. The end-purpose of the journey was to visit U.C. Berkeley and Stanford for potential graduate study in Operations Research (I ended up going to Stanford after theContinue reading “Skiing at Mount Hood“
A Pair of Two-Thousand-Year Civilizations
The following is a comparison between a pair of two-thousand-year civilizations within the history of so-called Western civilization. First, the Greek and Roman period, and immediately following that, the Christian, Enlightenment and Industrial period, if the latter lasts that long. A caveat: I am not a historian, and details of this short essay may beContinue reading “A Pair of Two-Thousand-Year Civilizations“
The Chinese Government and Tibet
Robert Thurman, in his book Inner Revolution, says that according to Tibetan Buddhism, “the purpose of human life is the evolutionary development of each human individual. Therefore the purpose of society is the education and empowerment of its individuals.”1 It’s interesting and surprising to me that Ralph Waldo Emerson said something similar, although I doubt heContinue reading “The Chinese Government and Tibet“
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
I went to San Francisco yesterday [December 1965] for the first time in two months. After wandering around the city, as dusk was deepening, I climbed Telegraph Hill. Past the last houses, onto Filbert Street – the last quarter-turn of the street to the parking lot. I could feel the fresh wind and smell andContinue reading “Telegraph Hill, San Francisco”
The Stories of Mother Earth
Joseph Campbell in his books about mythology discusses early stories about the Great Goddess and Mother Earth. “[T]he older, neolithic, and Bronze Age mythologies of the Goddess Mother of the universe, in whom all things have their being, gods and men, plants, animals, and inanimate objects alike, and whose cosmic body itself is the enclosingContinue reading “The Stories of Mother Earth”
Adirondack Tales
During the early 1960s, my friend Sidney and I took two week-long hiking excursions during the summers in the Adirondack Park in the High Peak region. It was his favorite place for hiking – he grew up in the Philadelphia area and his family took regular summer camping vacations there. We backpacked all our suppliesContinue reading “Adirondack Tales”
Comment on Elizabeth Peabody and the Transcendentalists
In Megan Marshall’s book on The Peabody Sisters, she states “As she wrestled with the spiritual questions … Elizabeth gravitated toward a communitarian view rather than toward the cult of the self-reliant individual that Emerson and Thoreau would espouse.”1 Ms. Peabody certainly had a more communitarian view than Emerson and Thoreau. However, my view ofContinue reading “Comment on Elizabeth Peabody and the Transcendentalists”
A Commentary on the Poems of Han-Shan
Han-Shan was a Chinese Buddhist poet who named himself after a place in China where he lived called Cold Mountain (the translation of Han-Shan). His date is unclear, although stylistically he appears to be in the T’ang Dynasty, perhaps 700-780 CE. He is considered one of the greatest poets of classical Chinese poetry. The poetContinue reading “A Commentary on the Poems of Han-Shan”
White Supremacy and U. S. History
White Supremacy is the principal driver of the history of the United States. We are not alone; every country in the Western Hemisphere has white supremacy at its root, from Canada south to Chile and Argentina. After all, this is why white Europeans came to this hemisphere, to take land and push the indigenous peopleContinue reading “White Supremacy and U. S. History”
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