If there is one inexplicable thing in our lives, it must surely be the dreams we all experience almost every night we lay our heads on the pillow and drift toward sleep. Often we forget them, sometimes we’re haunted by…
“When I was a young boy, about six years old, my grandfather and mother started me on the path of light.” —Wolfkiller Found among the papers of my great-grandmother, Louisa Wade Wetherill, was a remarkable story of early Navajo life…
“It is not necessary to ‘go back’ in time to be the kind of creature you are. The genes from the past have come forward to us. I am asking that people change not their genes but their society, in…
It should shock no one that, when I was in school, I often fought with my professors. I was raised by parents who taught me to trust my internal logic, and so when anyone, even authority figures, told me something…
“I am certain there can be no comprehension of the present without the past, just as I am certain the past is not past. And there can be no comprehension of the present without all the tribes, human, animal, floral,…
Reading My Way Through History “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others,” Groucho Marx Let me introduce this episode’s exciting format. In an effort to remain logical and linear, the general…
“Death, icy and irrevocable, is the genuine definition of reality.” John D. McDonald Perhaps due to an innate evolutionary quirk, Homo erectus asphaltus is hardwired to compress the vast array of known Cosmic data entering our brains into an…
“All I know is that I know nothing; and I’m not sure about that.” – Michel Eyguem de Montaigne In the spirit of Seigneur Montaigne, perhaps Europe’s most alluring philosopher, this essay ( essai – to be precise)…
