Artist, scientist, jack-of-all-trades master-of-most, with the cool clear eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth
We got to let Love rule, spake Lenny. I saw John Korty’s amazing film The Crazy Quilt as a young adult in its early release, and it profoundly shaped my worldview. Our priorities change, values shift, but love remains. I am amazed here in the evening of my life how Love rules me as never … More Love
Seventh day, Truth. Amazing how even with careful journalistic or scientific approaches, we can all fall prey to mistaking noise for signal. Maybe the formality of the process and need for corroboration, attention to detail and systematic examination makes some more susceptible, so that after digging and digging, when we find a datapoint that is … More Truth
How amazing to have made this far! I am profoundly grateful to providence for the generosity it has shown in allowing my hopes to become reality. … More Hope, Generosity, Gratitude
The community trinity ends with Kindness. I saw two films this week, both filled with both kindnesses and suffering: James Cameron’s Avatar: Way of Water, and Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. Like most tent pole movies these days Avatar gleefully depicted the violent deaths of hundreds of beings, most of them celebrated as glorious victories of … More Kindness
Day 2 of the community trinity. Getting old is sort of a race were every competitor you pass is dead. People we love and care about just endlessly trickle away with we winners feeling both more lucky, more lonely, and more doomed. I’m often surprised when the death of some celebrity far removed from me … More Compassion
Today is the first Holly Day of 2022: Unity. It has been a decade since I began this practice of posting daily essays on each Holly Day, 17 years now since we began to develop Holly Days as a family tradition. I start this annual ritual by going back and rereading my previous year’s posts … More Unity
The home stretch, New Years remixed into the Days of Awesomeness. Today I try to think about my failures, regrets, and how to mitigate their damage. “Ok, Boomer,” they spit out, suggesting a lack of insight, even a condemnation for all the woe in the world. Sirius XM shut down their holiday stations and so … More Atonement Forgiveness & Redemption
Day nine, and the end of the second trinity, we consider courage. I am of the male sex, but I have pretty strong gender dysphoria, generally being frightened and repulsed by the brash and ballsy archetype of a Real Man. Having had many real men hurl this epithet at me, I decided to own it, … More Courage
Today is the eighth day of Holly Days. This seems to be one of the handful years when I have separated out this trinity into separate posts. The ramping down of the spirit that always comes when xmas has passed tends to weaken the impetus for these posts. I am expecting a new grandbaby any … More Love
This is the first day of the 3rd trinity, and the principle that is most important to my world view. However I have a scientific orientation and view it more as a process of truth seeking rather than any sort of knowledge of ultimate truths. The way the word science has been personified and bandied … More Truth
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