Going Alone

Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...

I've always been one to notice the hole in the fabric of humanity, where one may press through a finger to the place outside. You can...

I have long dreamed of a nice, personal room where I can work. A little office at home where I can set up a desk and chair and my stuff,...

The Great Indifference exists wherever we are not distracted by ourselves. It is the substance of the universe that isn't—not empty...

There is so much to occupy the time of life. So much to do. So many people to know, and love, and pass the time together with. One thing...

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...

In his book Walden, specifically in the chapter titled "The Ponds", Henry David Thoreau describes the seasons and moods of Walden Pond as...

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 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...

Necessity suggests a condition which must be met in order for a proposition to be true, while sufficiency guarantees the proposition is,...

It is a difficult thing to wipe my glasses while doing nothing else. My mind, my deep and inner mind, knows how to do this chore without...

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...

Emotions are a curious thing to ride upon. They jump and jostle and jolt and then rest, before picking up again and tossing all about. As...

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

Yumiko and I decided to downsize after Emily left to begin life on her own. Our own move began just two days after Emily left our home on...

All memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in morning atmosphere. -Henry David Thoreau There is a season in...

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...

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...