In 2014: Break Us Open With Love

Today, this New Year’s Day, I’d like to get to the heart of things. I do so with a little bit of trepidation because this means revealing to the world how much of an optimistic and earnest fool I really am at heart and I know how much some of you hate that kind ofContinue reading “In 2014: Break Us Open With Love”

Everything That Matters I Learned From My Tennis Instructor

I’m severely astigmatic, which goes a long way in explaining those traumatic adolescent experiments in sports that my teachers put me through.  And I don’t mean just the usual traumatizing gym class so overplayed in teen movies, even though I had plenty of those teen-movie angst moments, like when my American peers thought to welcomeContinue reading “Everything That Matters I Learned From My Tennis Instructor”

Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior

What we are lacking, in a strict sense, is not consciousness. We know what the problems are; we know what would solve them; even in a narrowly technical sense, the solutions are ready to hand. But we have not had the sense or the will to implement them. The world has been more than happyContinue reading “Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior”

Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior

What we are lacking, in a strict sense, is not consciousness. We know what the problems are; we know what would solve them; even in a narrowly technical sense, the solutions are ready to hand. But we have not had the sense or the will to implement them. The world has been more than happyContinue reading “Why I’m Not Waiting For A Savior”