• So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (33)

    This completes the second section, “Shaping Ourselves,” of my projected book to be called So You Think Your Life Was Wasted. Next week we’ll start on Part Three, “Society and the Individual.” Life and Achievement Friday, August 10, 2007 5:45 a.m. somehow frittered away three quarters of an hour doing — what?? Story of my…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (1)

    Using my method of Intuitive Linked Communication, or ILC — The guys upstairs suggested the name, years ago — I have for the past few years been “conversing” (I don’t know how else to describe it) with several not-currently embodied people with whom I seem to share a resonance. Most prominent, recently, has been Ernest…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Section Three (1)

    Now we begin the third section of this proposed book. First came Section One: Who and What We Are. Next came Section Two: How to Live Section Three: Society and the Individual, this section, will be followed by Section Four: The Challenge of Our Time. Thursday January 5, 2006 (8:45 a.m.) All right, friends, I’m…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (2)

    Friday, April 30, 2010 All right, Papa, you came home from the war and what happened externally is a record. What happened on the inside, and how conscious were you all that at the time? And — if you don’t want to talk about this but about something else instead, we can do that. As…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Section Three (2)

    You may think you know where this entry is going after the first couple of paragraphs, but I think that, like me, you will be surprised. January 7, 2006 A friend gave me the DVD of “Dances With Wolves” for Christmas. and I am watching it on my computer, a little at a time. The…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (3)

    Saturday, May 1, 2010 8:30 AM. 10 years out of your life, eh, Papa? Fucking right. 10 years out of my writing life, which is my closest, most precious, part. Everything else in my life was sort of relaxing from it, or holding it away. And from 1940 to 1950 you weren’t able to punish…

  • Perennial desire

    “My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated even with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.” Thoreau, February 1851 (age 34)

  • Magical Thinking

    I frequently cite John Michael Greer’s Archdruid weekly columns in my other blog, The Context, which centers more on political and social issues than on the potential of consciousness. But this week’s column spans the gap. The original is at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/magical-thinking.html http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/06/magical-thinking.html Magical Thinking As I write these words, the catastrophe in the Gulf of…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Three (3)

    Thursday, February 23, 2006 Gentlemen, at your service. Who’s up? Pray bring whomever I need. [Bertram, a monk of Medieval England] The word “pray” attracted me, brother. And this, by the way, is why you should watch the words you use – one reason that words are so powerful is that they vibrate particular strings,…

  • Conversations with Hemingway (4)

    Sunday, May 2, 2010 Papa, I know you liked Max Perkins, and I know that you nonetheless struggled with him. Tell us about your relationship. The thing about Max was that he listened. He knew what worked and didn’t work. Didn’t always know how to fix a problem, but he could hear, loud and clear,…