Journeyman Taiji Quan Teacher

An autobiographical sketch of how I learned mindful whole body movement…

The Five Kinds of Truth

Personal truth

NPR is both arrogant and ignorant more often than I’d like

The mental side of physical health

Sometimes you discover that being stupid is good for your physical health, up to a point.

Up to the point of pain level 10, when you are well past whatever your own tolerance for pain is. Mine is fairly high, and this story is about the…

Dealing with fixation of belief

“In his well-known paper “The fixation of belief” (1877), Charles Sanders Peirce describes four methods for belief fixation: the method of tenacity, the method of…

The next step on your path through life

The very next step on your path through life very likely does not require a whole lot of…

The Perfectly Balanced Path publication

A scattershot introduction to the Perfectly Balanced Path publication.

Makes me think of Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett, Superman, Captain Kirk as well as actors like John Wayne and Ronald Regan. Our heroes are always not only larger than life, but are also portrayed as always being right. Other cultures usually have a hero or two like that, but most of them seem to give equal time and respect to mortal life size people…