• At the end of the old cycle …

    This is the last day of the old cycle on the Mayan calendar, and in any case the day before solstice, which is when the year’s solar tides change. It is a time for quiet reflection, a little thought about where your life has taken you to this point and where you would like it…

  • Planetary Spirit interview

    Just got off the phone from a one-hour radio interview with Jeff Ferrinini about Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway. He is a joy to interact with: He reads the book carefully and thinks about what he has read. The show, Planetary Spirit,  is produced in Boston. Today’s interview will be accessible online at some point. When…

  • Resolutions

     For the new cycle, and for the new year that begins in ten days, I set my intent.  To do the work best suited to me. To live so as to be a blessing to others. To find wisdom, and to recognize it when I find it, and to incorporate it into my life.  Anything…

  • 2013 — the year ahead

    A few weeks ago, New Dawn, an Australian magazine, asked me, among others, for a few words on “2013 The Year Ahead.” This is what I sent them. (New Dawn may be found at www.newdawnmagazine.com) 2013 The Year Ahead By Frank DeMarco Last year, the world failed to end. It keeps doing that, I notice.…

  • “Indian Camp” — A boy’s perspective

    I have said that this section of Chapter Two of Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway could be called “Papa teaches little Frank to read what isn’t there.” Might teach you something too, if you don’t already know it. A boy’s perspective [May 16 and 17, 2010] A friend of mine, a retired teacher of literature in…

  • VENTURA – WINTER REVERIES

    MICHAEL VENTURA LETTERS AT 3AM – WINTER REVERIES Austin Chronicle – December 28, 2012    Donna wasn’t really pretty. She was kind of scrawny. No stunning features. I remember a pale face, dark hair, grey eyes – but I may be wrong about the eyes. What she wore didn’t flatter her. You never noticed her…

  • Planetary Spirit interview link

    On December 20th, Jeff Ferrinnini and I did a one-hour radio interview on his show Planetary Spirit, which is produced out of Boston. The subject:  Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway. I noted at the time that Jeff is a joy to interact with: He reads the book carefully and thinks about what he has read. The…

  • Again, angels

     It’s funny,  it was just on the 12th that I posted on my blog a piece I called “Angels to each other,” inspired by my experience of the Emergency Room at UVA hospital, some years earlier. Today I spent in the Emergency Room at Martha Jefferson Hospital, and had an equally positive experience. (No, I’m…

  • An architecture of mental function

    As we move further away from the long nightmare of reductionist science and closer toward a new science centered on consciousness, unsuspected connections will open up, and new possibilities will suggest themselves. Here is one. Via this morning’s ever-helpful SchwartzReport, this extremely provocative and interesting story: http://www.psmag.com/culture/corridors-of-the-mind-49051/

  • Suppose we —

     I was lying in bed, sort of daydreaming – free-associating – and a cartoon I saw on facebook yesterday came into mind. One panel showed little kids of the 1980s in an outdoor scene, running around, playing. The other showed kids of 2012 in the same scene, all sitting under one of the trees, clicking…