Jun 29, 2020Member-onlyCompetition: The Great DividerDo We Need To Do or Die Trying? — I tell myself I’m a nonviolent person, not a very competitive type. …Competition19 min readCompetition19 min read
Jun 19, 2020Member-onlyIndulging in the Mystery of Melania Trump(She’s Not Weird, She’s Slovenian) — I spent most of Monday morning, June 15, poring over an online digest of stories on the marriage of Donald and Melania Trump. It was pure gossip-column stuff. Voices from my background and early training scorned it and niggled me for my bad taste in lapping up this gossipy drivel…Melania15 min readMelania15 min read
Jun 15, 2020Member-onlyWhat Is Truth?A Peek Inside a Reporter’s Creed — An unusual offer came my way less than a month before I was to begin college. How would I like to train as a newspaper reporter at the same time as I went to school? It really was a sweetheart deal. I’d work twenty hours a week during the semester…Truth16 min readTruth16 min read
Jun 7, 2020Member-onlyCharley and MeLooking Back on LSD at 80 — I take coincidences seriously, as I mentioned in an earlier article (“Full Mind-Brain Development,” Medium, May 27, 2020). Coincidences often are clues pointing to a deeper, unifying layer of thought or consciousness at work in our daily lives than we immediately perceive. …Charlie Manson17 min readCharlie Manson17 min read
Jun 1, 2020Member-onlyPeace, Prosperity, Personal FreedomThat’s What I Want — Every politician is interesting, beginning with the motivations which prompt any one of them to seek public office in the first place. Why take on the inevitable abuse following every individualistic move s/he makes, on or off-script? I’m not thinking of any specific politician. Most any one would do, strange…Biden19 min readBiden19 min read
May 27, 2020Member-onlyFull Mind-Brain DevelopmentWhat It Means To Think Metaphysically — With increased attention these days on psychedelic experiences as healing rather than destroying personalities, it can only be a matter of time before metaphysics returns to the everyday vocabulary of ordinary heads — that is, those of us who still find a natural order in coincidence and believe that there…Metaphysics19 min readMetaphysics19 min read
May 19, 2020Member-onlyWelcome to Buena VistaThe Hill with the Healing View — The cruel war is raging, Johnny has to fight I want to be with him from morning to night I want to be with him, it grieves my heart so Won’t you let me go with you? No, my love, no. — Peter, Paul, and Mary, 1962 That first stanza…Peter Paul And Mary12 min readPeter Paul And Mary12 min read
May 13, 2020Member-onlyLooking for EnzoA Treatise on Life, Love, and Death — Americans are tired of the pandemic. Climbing numbers of the dead, as in my home state of Virginia, don’t impress the people who won’t believe in what they cannot see — i.e., the Coronavirus. They’ll believe in spirits, angels, devils, and God, none of whom they may ever see. …Death21 min readDeath21 min read
May 9, 2020Member-onlyWhen the Luck Runs OutIt must be strange for Donald Trump to feel that his luck — that inexplicable charm that somehow got him elected — may now be running out. The continuous flow of large sums of money and the ease with which he managed to escape his major debts provide a fascinating…Luck6 min readLuck6 min read
May 2, 2020Member-onlyJoe Biden Faces #MeTooAll of a sudden Joe Biden’s got a problem. A woman who worked for him in the early ’90s has come forward to accuse him of a nasty sexual assault on her in a hallway of a Capital Hill office building. …Joe Biden12 min readJoe Biden12 min read
