Going Alone

For what reason is temperance a virtue? Why do the sages live in austerity, and the desert fathers forsake the world, and the poet love...

Such a long hike to get here, now. The place where I set out from is invisible beyond those distant hills, a memory of setting out from a...

Our personal nature is our most visible evidence that our will is never fully free: as how many forces of my personal being - my...

I expect my consciousness is a connect-the-dots affair; a consequence of some trillions of atoms gathered and enlivened through the...

I have such a small and precious set of values - objectives and principles to guide my life. So very few. Each one is precious to me, as...

How best might I prove myself wrong? I have this suspicion, not quite yet a belief perhaps, that free will is an illusion. How can I...

I swam yesterday in the sea. I swam possibly too far yesterday in the sea, as I am today quite worn and spent. I expect that this is a...

It is said that good actions are their own reward; bearing an immediate and lasting fruit of nearly tangible well-being unto at least the...

How much more decorous a possession than honest self-reflection; though there is nothing to see in such wealth besides the owner's...

Who knew becoming empty-nesters was so painful? Surely, neither Yumiko or I did. And who knew how fast the sense of absence and loss...

I believe that Yumiko and I are as prepared for our new life together as we might hope to be. With our daughter leaving us this coming...

Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...

Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he may live in all respects so...

I think our expiration date is roughly our fiftieth birthday. What I mean, is that if we have not yet observed and said anything original...

My daughter has begun to produce art for my book Going Alone. She came with me to the desert recently to experience firsthand the...

While at Siberia this past weekend I discovered I'd had a visitor. Someone had actually come, and had made their way from the ghost town...

Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...

October 28, 2019 Dear Eric, When we are young there are many who hear; though as we age there seem fewer to listen. There is something...

October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...