This pandemic is preposterous, painful. It’s unnerving not knowing our future. Still, humans often make the greatest progress in the face of major obstacles and even despair. This is an ominous time, pushing us to review what's not working in our world. It’s a... Continue
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Nature on this planet functions as a complex adaptive system, a self-regulating, self-propagating process responsive to changing conditions. It is a totalistic meta-system with no "off" switch and within which all the individual systems of each biological entity are enmeshed and interdependent. Accordingly, entirely isolating... Continue
The ideal of a stable society has preoccupied humankind for a long time, perhaps forever. In order to promulgate social stability, diverse methods have been attempted by various systems of governance and leadership ranging from autocratic to democratic, communal to sovereign, hard-fisted to liberal. All... Continue
Talk about being “All in This Together!” Unlike any time in memory, all kids – regardless of grade level, age, race, creed, color, national origin, or immigration status – are enrolled in the very same course as their parents, grandparents, teachers, mentors, and probation officers,... Continue
I'm currently sporting a hair style I call the Covid; in other periods it’s been called the Einstein, a wild style ill-suited to going out of the house. Over my 72 years, I've had all sorts of hair styles. In my childhood, a crew-cut was... Continue
When I was not yet ten, Mom put me on a plane to visit Carleen. My sister took one look at me and decided I was never going back, and so I lived with her and her family for the next eight years, until 1966,... Continue
We are trying to breathe deeply as we move through our seventh week of sheltering in place, now wearing colorful facial masks. Thank you to our community for supporting the orders issued by Governor Newsom and Public Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase; because of this,... Continue
The coronavirus has reportedly killed over 60,000 people in America as of April 30th - probably far more - a large number but still a small percentage of our total population. It's effects on life, on the other hand, have affected all 325 million of... Continue
Communication between people is a mix of words, gestures, facial expressions and tonality; in many circumstances, how we communicate is what we communicate; it's a matter of nuance. Words delivered with a sneer are received differently than those delivered with a smile. By observing the... Continue
Once again, our county has been thrust into an emergency scenario. And while we have weathered fires, floods, and power outages together, this time is different. Instead of affecting only our area, now the whole world is facing the same crisis. I am talking, of... Continue