Shards of Consciousness

What do you own? Do you own your house? Do you own your car? Do you own the computer sitting in front of you?Read more

I've been called an anarchist, and in the sense that I dislike the forms of coercive controls and authority between adults, I am. I don't really care if you're a worldly success. I don't really care if you're healthy. Though I word things in the sense of pursuing happiness, I don't really care if you're happy.Read more

Another Sunday. The week cycles through from beginning to an end that marks a new beginning. It's gray outside my door today, but the signs of spring abound. Robins have returned. The first spring bulbs are showing small shoots of green. Temperatures have started to climb. The rabbits in the yard are surely feeling excitement at the thought of new food since they have almost completed stripping the bark off the apple limbs we left for them last fall. The fish in the pond swim about the top as the ice has melted completely for the first time in weeks.Read more

The Wisdom of CrowdsRead more

Words mean things. I've said it before. I'll be saying it again because it is an important idea that we frequently let slip into the corners of our minds.

I can hear you. Well, duh. Of course words mean things.

They mean a lot more than we give them credit for. Take this example.

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