How We Know Ourselves: d. Intimately
There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...
How We Fool Ourselves
Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...
How We Know Ourselves: c. In the World
We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all....
The Peace that Passeth All Understanding
When he was born, his mama said, “The moon turned black, and the clock stopped dead. Lord, have mercy,” she said, “what have I done? Is...
How We Know Ourselves: b. Bodily
The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma--human or divine--can diminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and...
How We Know Ourselves: a. Limits
The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...
Why Not Just Tell the Stories?
An occasionally wise erstwhile friend once told me he thought there were three important things in life to think about. While his...
The Power of Literary Reading
This is a "guest blog" from my old friend Martha, my one-time Dean of Faculty who got me involved in a writing group, part of the...
Meditations on Epigenesis
Strange beginnings to some thoughts about epigenesis. For those of you who aren’t sure what that means, it’s the part of biological...
Naked, and You Clothed Me
One of the most iconic images of the Vietnam war era was of the “Napalm Girl,” Phan Thi Kim Phuc, her clothes burned away by American...
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