Last night at dinner, Doug and I were discussing Thomas Jefferson’s trifecta–his top three luminaries (John Locke, Francis Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton) and then our […]

I subscribe to a couple of blogs–including My Soul in Silence Waits. I rarely go to the website, instead reading the feed as it comes into […]

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make […]

I just returned from my favorite run in the woods. A few new trees fell in the past few days, stones migrated from spots along the […]

I now believe Buddha even more–Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Haruki Murakami agrees and quotes it in his book What I talk about when I […]

One of my colleagues gives credit to students who “fail.” Failing in the sense of experimenting big, trying something new that may or may not work, […]