Half a Mind 2

In 2022, I wrote revised lyrics for Peter Sarstedt's 1969 song, 'Where do you go to (my lovely)'.   You can read my lyrics below...

      During the most recent US election season (2024), DT 1 publicly proclaimed in a Presidential debate that in Springfield Ohio, the Hai...

Sitting around with a group of people discussing the challenges of communication in relationships when one person offered an insight that I ...

Morning dark evanescent  rising sun incandescent, silence... still... iridescent . Muted morning is broken burbling bird names are spoken...

It has been pointed out to me that when someone tells me they need to speak ‘the truth’, I roll my eyes and grimace. Let me offer some wor...

Q: How many philosophers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Depends on how you define “change” An engineer, a scientist, a mathemati...

Icarus : Is there any meaning to life? Is it not just about birth and death with the middle part being a period of procrastinating on the d...

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868 – 1912), received a university professor who came to enquire about Zen. Nan-in served t...

Hede: I recently made a donation of $1,000 to a charity and I'm feeling pretty good about it. Hart: Really? I recently made a donation o...

Image from Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1839   [The following is an extract from "Idol Words" by Scott Alexander at https://astralcodex...

https://blog.csiro.au/plastic-pollution-on-our-beaches/   Outrage is litter  that sullies the  moral landscape   -- Ssh

  Be gentle on the judgments of others; And be mindful of your own!     -- Ssh

Dochotomy by MsLil (2021)     (This article is a L-O-N-G read, and it is incomplete. Constructive comments are welcome.) The ground rules fo...

Do humans want to know their future? Yes, people are interested in knowing their future. We want to know the future in terms of…   w...

Time has a curious essence. Unlike the other three dimensions - length, breadth, depth - we can travel in only one direction through time: ...

  “Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions”   – David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature ( Book 3, Part 3, Section 3 ) ----...

  Claire asks Tiffany "Do know what time it is?"   Tiffany looks around at an old-fashioned clock sitting on the sideboard which s...

  Be who you are -- for no-one else can be Become who you can be -- for no-one else can do it Ssh   ---------------- To be what we are, and ...