"It’s almost as if you have to spend your whole life disengaging from your life, disengaging from the supposed reality of your living. I think that’s what Spinoza and Socrates meant about life is the study of dying, that you leave these convictions of certitude about the whole business. I certainly feel lots of that now, …
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The Final Lap
I'll be offline for a while. My step-dad Jim, who would have been 86 on April 15, passed away Friday from natural causes. Jim had a difficult life in many ways. His early years were spent in an orphanage until age 9 when he was adopted by a farmer who used him strictly as a …
JANUARY CHALLENGE… My Awakening Experience And Moving Forward
Here is my contribution to Barbara Franken's January Challenge series. This is a story in which the right kind of trouble unexpectedly brings a gift. From an early age, I struggled to feel a sense of belonging and identity. As a child I loved play-acting and imagining what it might be like to be a bear, a dog, …
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Aunt Bunny’s Postcards
My great, great Aunt Bunny remains a lifelong source of inspiration for me. She was my father's, mother's, father's, sister. Born in 1875 1877, two years after Carl Gustav Jung, she died in 1965, when I was only 7. She lived in an old house on Maple Avenue in Patchogue, Long Island NY, a couple of miles …
Less than zero
So, what exactly is it that people are doing with their lives? That is the question that carried me through the next few years following the big dream. Feeling that some semblance of sanity had returned it seemed that life was waiting for me to finally cut a path through the heart of my existence. …
Theoria 