Josh

Beautifully said, and profoundly true.

Take care of that heart. Let it not hardened in bitterness and despair. 🙏

That we should take care of each other seems to have become a radical and subversive notion.

Nothing reveals more about the nature of our universe than the existence and nature of life.

You may have three: 🫂🫂🫂 I hope you feel better soon.

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I will miss her, but she gave the world gifts that will keep on giving.

Jane Goodall has long been someone with whom I resonate deeply. She was a scientist committed to understanding Nature on its own terms, and inseparable from her curiosity and intellectual integrity was a deep sense of love, awe, respect, and wonder for this mysterious, beautiful, terrible world.

A society that turns its back on this culture is destined to become increasingly illiberal, stagnant, and even oppressive.

Whether any particular field, or particular line of research within a field is of practical value, however defined, is not as important as the general culture of curiosity, inquiry, learning, and debate that a vibrant academic and intellectual life creates. (1/2)

Thank you! No fires in our area, fortunately, and the air quality is good! You are also welcome to reach out any time.

I haven’t been here in a while, but I’m peeking in to see what’s new. How are you?

Fresh haircut, new shades. Ready for the warmer weather.

I think much of the crisis in the world in this moment is a sobering answer to this question. The Tech Bros and their friends are false prophets, leading us ever further away from to true needs of the human soul.

There is a question posed in the Bible that I think is fundamental, though for me the answer manifests in my Zen way of life: “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

and gain as it is about wisdom and our universal values of honesty, courage, compassion, fairness, generosity, and so forth, and these elements of a noble and meaningful life have proven to be accessible in all walks of life, from paupers to queens.

If your definition of progress casts empathy as a weakness and a liability, it is no definition I would ever accept. It’s all will and good to gain more control over illness, hunger, and exposure to the elements, but human life, from my perspective, is less about comforts, pleasures, amusements,

I seek the darkness to let it see that someone loves it, too.

I’m slow. I read slowly. I think slowly. I walk slowly. I cut vegetables slowly.

And you know what? I love being slow.

that deep tranquility, that unshakable confidence and serenity."

I certainly still suffer; the great range of my human emotions has not been attenuated per se, but I suffer differently, such that I do not feed it, for it finds no fertile soul in my mind where it may take root.

Arthur Schopenhauer, a 19th-century philosopher, was deeply fascinated by Eastern philosophy and spirituality. He has a beautiful quote that aptly captures what I myself have discovered in my 30 years of Zen practice: "that peace that is higher than all reason, that ocean-like calmness of spirit,

“Let everything happen to you.
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We’re spread rather thin in primary care, too.

I’m in! ☺️

He’s working hard on that! 😂

Even though it’s inevitable, I feel as if I’m not ready to grow up, yet.

—My older son, age 15

I think the two words that could most succinctly summarize our current era are: Too Much.

Hi! I’ve missed you. 😘