Truth in Discovery

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~~ Galileo The principle is true, really, that you find what you look for.  The principle that I have struggled with most of all is being assertive in the seeking.  What is it that…

And so today, you know…

…as I drove to work today, fighting the usual panic amidst the doom of traffic, I thought about where I worked. Really, really thought about it.  And you know what? I really enjoy my job. I love the environment in which I teach in now.  It’s not that I didn’t enjoy my…

my stars

Driving home from the city last night we saw something most spectacular.  All three of us saw it at the same time: a bright luminescent green shooting star went streaking across the sky from east to west in a delicate arc.  It shot slowly.  Bright at first, as always, and…

.crawling before walking.

So it’s like this… I’ve had vertigo.  I seriously had vertigo.  The kind of sickness that people joke about.  This is the sickness that, when I was a receptionist for a general contractor, we fired a guy for lying about having.  He was really home watching soap operas in his…

Threads

When I first began my blog it was because my friend Andrew suggested I start one.  I thought that I might write a little something every once in a while, maybe link to something I thought was interesting… I had no idea it would become this.  I am still not…

Walden, Part 2

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately… and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ~~ Thoreau, Walden I’ve written about Walden Pond before.  And I’ve been inspired to…