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"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on...

I spent the weekend engaging in some serious spring cleanup with Nichole, and now (my body buttressed by a few Motrin), I am amped up for spring to get into full swing. Flowers blooming, birds singing, squirrels frolicking, and teenagers...

Gibran's The Prophet is one of the best selling and most translated books of all time. In addition to its positive attitude toward humanity, there is a gentle but insistent provocation to reconnect with nature, directly and deeply.  Twenty years ago, the idea...

Hey all, I thought I would break up the relentless march of stoicism with a little Jane Austen amuse-bouche. This fantastic quotation is from her Juvenilia collection, and in context she’s writing an epistolary story from the point of view...

pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease:your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness--- electrons deify one razorbladeinto a mountainrange; lenses extendunwish through curving wherewhen till unwishreturns on its unself.A...

“You always have the option of having no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in your soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.” - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations, 6.52 Closing in on...