“When we spend time in nature, our ego realizes it has no audience to perform for and it slowly quiets down.” (David Brooks). We’ve been in the Sierras for a week. As my wife and I were fishing along Rush Creek, we came to this spot. We stopped fishing and sat there for an hourContinue reading “Watching the River Flow”

As you go through your day, do you feel like you are on stage every minute, striving to give a stellar performance?             I once heard an engaging talk by a theology professor, Tom Boyd.  He noted how we may hear someone is “a practicing Christian” or “a practicing Buddhist.”  He then explored the differenceContinue reading “Practicing or Performing?”

I’ve been wondering what the 4th of July could mean this year, given all we’ve been through. I decided to do some reading.          I started with First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country, by Thomas E. Hicks.  After the presidential election of 2016, Hicks,Continue reading “The Art of “Living in the Tragic Gap,” Part Two: The American Dream”