Going Alone

September 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Your gaze never once appeared to waver. Was this due to your youth? Was that it? Was it the strength and...

September 27, 2019 Dear Eric, It's too bad our talks together never explored the issue of morality and justice... As I would have enjoyed...

September 26, 2019 Dear Eric, You, my friend, were one wont to emotion. Though normally you were riding high atop the joyful bubble of...

September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...

September 22, 2019 Dear Eric, How wide were the margins of your life? Not wide enough, I'd guess, given the fact that you left absolutely...

September 21, 2019 Dear Eric, Equanimity is the only reward worth pursuing - though we can never gain this treasure by pursuit, less...

September 19, 2019 Dear Eric, Why would God create a universe with evil? "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create...

September 18, 2019 Dear Eric, I weaponized faith for the first time yesterday. Well, maybe that's too strong a word. But that's how it...

September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...

September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...

September 14, 2019 Dear Eric, There's great satisfaction in success. But only if that success resonates deep and echos back to our ears...

September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...

September 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Every time... Every. Single. Time... Every time I go to the desert, or to the mountains, or to the sea, I...

September 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You and I never got around to discussing the concept of nihilism; the idea that life is essentially devoid of

September 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I’m typing you this note with some difficulty from a tent in the deep desert. There's just one-bar of...

September 4, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the end pursuit of virtue? And for that matter what is virtue? I define virtue as the improvement of

September 2, 2019 Dear Eric, How much vacuum - if any - is necessary to discover free will? How much of the "substrate" of the universe

August 31, 2019 Eric, You're not going to believe this... But I've become one of the faithful. Yup. It happened yesterday, about an hour

August 30, 2019 Dear Eric, I've written to you a few times on the subject of free will - or rather, my perceived lack thereof. I've a thou

August 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Let me try to explain The Good Life principle I call "The Pirate Ride." Imagine yourself on an amusement park att