Going Alone

I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...

Looking back on the route so far, through the tangled weeds and forgotten and neglected spaces; I’ll remember fondly that I’d walked...

I previously imagined that the risk of avoiding risk was shallow on the domestic side, and deep on the personal side; that those who...

We live best When we return from the cold And choose the inward path of warmth A life of now And a life of here And a life with others...

Exploring the livelihood and consequence of living with an awareness that free will may be a quite compelling illusion.

Sometimes the best benefit of change is what we lose rather than what we gain.

November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...

November 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I sometimes - often, in fact - indulge a little too much. The temptation is so innocent a thing...just...

November 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I recently added a new principle to The Good Life which I call the Principle of Public Speaking. The idea is...

November 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I am very good at being wrong. It's a knack, kinda. And I am often wrong on the same decision more than once....

November 4, 2019 Dear Eric, I have noticed a new trend in my thinking and writing... I've been coming upon the theme of fire often. Not...

October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...

October 30, 2019 Dear Eric, Both joy and suffering can yield the same sweet harvest if we know how to winnow the chaff from the grain....

October 29, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd like to tell you the tale of my falling, and my recovery. It's a good tale. And most of us have such a...

October 28, 2019 Dear Eric, When we are young there are many who hear; though as we age there seem fewer to listen. There is something...

October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of...

How much distance do we travel when we stand still? How far and fast do we go while asleep in our beds? And how hasty our journey even...

October 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...

October 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...

October 23, 2019 Dear Eric, The subject of life meaning never crossed our young minds. We were perhaps simply too young then. Our...