• Hemingway on Hemingway

    Tentative cover.  

  • We do not do. You do by choosing.

    Some pretty good information from the guys upstairs this morning, complete with diagrams. Some of the information builds on material from The Sphere and the Hologram, and The Cosmic Internet, but should be understandable enough. Thursday, March 1, 2012 The other night, sparked perhaps by something Facebook-related — it reminded me of high school, I…

  • Enigma

      For some time now, I have had this photograph as wallpaper on my computer, just so I wouldn’t forget. Looking at it, what would you say it is? If you didn’t know that it was a planet or satellite, would it really look like one? Look — really look — at that shape. Look…

  • Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future

    Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future This TED talk  is the ultimate answer to the people who think the past is dismal, the present is dismal, and the  future is  hopeless. Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which gives rich cash awards to  inventors and engineers. The X Prize’s first $10 million went to a…

  • One year on, ‘ghosts’ stalk Japan’s tsunami city

    This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. I remember seeing a similar story after the Indonesian tsunami a few years ago that killed so many people so suddenly. Of course many dismiss perception of ghosts as superstition, and fear of ghosts often is superstition. Nonetheless, some perceive more than others, and it would be well…

  • Legitimate Suffering and Mental Illness

    I included this exchange in my forthcoming  Hemingway on Hemingway. Legitimate Suffering and Mental Illness Sunday, August 8, 2010, 5 AM. Just spent most of an hour posting [on my website] a couple of conversations from May…. It was interesting to read the pieces from May 24 and 25. I had forgotten that it was…

  • Dad and me

      The funny-looking guy on the right-hand side of the photo is me sometime in the early 1970s, complete with long sideburns, a thick long  mop of hair,  and a  frame that now by comparison appears skeletally thin. The man I’m standing next to is my father. March 6, 2012 makes 27 years since he left us,…

  • MacLeish — “Conversation in a Belfry”

    Empires are not created — and do not decline — in a day or two. Neither are free republics lost so quickly. It takes time. Years ago, in going through old journals, I found this poem copied out, by Archibald MacLeish, titled “Conversation in a Belfry,” from Ten Conversations,  written post-Watergate. Each passing year only goes to…

  • Global Perspective interview

    Did an interesting interview Friday night with Ken Jackson, host of  Global Perspective, a blogtalk show on Freedomizer Radio. Freedomizer Radio appears to specialize in pursuing conspiracy theories, which is not exactly at the center of what I spend my time talking about. And yet, perhaps it wasn’t such a misfit, either. People who are…

  • A Time for Planting Intentions

    Those who have no personal experience of dowsing, and those who know of dowsing only in connection with the practice of finding water, will scarcely be able to believe its true potential. One particularly effective practitioner is my friend Raymon Grace, whose book The Future is Yours we distributed at Hampton Roads about 10 years…