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A leisurely walk through our botanical gardens today took us down a path lined with specimens of Bonsai eventually leading us in a...

I am of the age –or will be shortly that a friend waggishly described as entering the final quarter. Whether I make it or not through the...

In a recent post I offered up a perspective on the subject of artificial intelligence—or at least the kind of AI that has been making...

Etymology has long been an interest, admittedly as a consequence of learning in my early teens that J.R.R Tolkien was a professor of...

Observing the current state of impasse at which our two-party system has arrived, it is instructive to remind ourselves how we got to...

You’ve probably heard the expression, “the past is prologue to the future,” suggesting that events and experiences of the past inform...

I suspect most of us read Shelley’s Ozymandias at some point in High School or perhaps later in college. It is a favorite of English...

No doubt you are familiar with the quote from George Santayana, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It is...

I’ve written before of the solitude one can experience in the deep forest or at the top of a mountain, both places I’ve been drawn to...

Although the official start of Spring is still weeks away, the shift to Daylight Savings Time always heralds the change of seasons for me....

Scientist and science fiction author, Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote “any reasonably advanced technology is indistinguishable from...

I recently finished two novels written by one of my favorite authors, Cormac McCarthy. The Passenger and its follow-on, Stella Maris are...

Browsing a frequently visited site the other day I ran across a quote that inspired this post. “Any large-scale human cooperation-whether...

I am not among those who believe the so-called good old days were either good or worthy of repetition. About the only positive thing I...

In a few days we will celebrate a holiday that in its contemporary form dates back to the Victorian era but has its origins in the Roman...

Scientists have named the phenomenon of involuntary memory after the author Marcel Proust who first coined the term in his novel, In...

We humans have a tendency to view our lives in very linear terms. We make distinctions about past, present and future that are...

Plato’s Cave is a well-known allegory presented in the dialectic entitled Republic. In the course of explaining the philosopher’s...

I had planned to write on another subject this week, but the news that reached me today of the passing of a dear friend, Christine...

Around the time the former Soviet Union was in decline, an advertisement in a news magazine showed a picture of a crowd of East Germans...