Soaking in hot tubs of my own design and manufacture has been a pastime of mine for thirty-five years. When building my first one, I was installing a used pool heater when I discovered the flame would come on for only seconds and then go out. Studying the system I came to the conclusion that [...]

As humans we are lacking. Paradoxically what makes us whole is when we take ownership of our lacks. Unfortunately, we tend to externalize our lacks and find people or the world lacking. In doing so we are unaware that in finding the world lacking, we find what we are looking for. There is a good [...]

My father had two brothers who died of cancer before they were fifty years old. He was the youngest and was in his thirties when they died. From that time on he lived in fear of dying young. He lived with a fear of dying young until his death at eighty-six.
I have a close friend [...]

Imagine a child walking for the first time. At the first step, there is an instantaneous outpouring of praise (intense attention). The child appears somewhat dazed as its attention is attracted to the proud parent. There is nothing more satisfying than these moments. Beyond the immediate satisfaction something else may be happening. In the child’s [...]

I spoke to a man the other day who successfully survived an alien abduction. He claimed that he had been in a place where, unlike our planet, the rules of thought, emotion, action and social interaction, were clearly written out for all to know. One needed only to consult the rules displayed within easy sight [...]