In the movie, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and Toto embarked on a wonderful and scary adventure. For them, the goal was to get home, and to actually accomplish that, they had no real decisions to make. They were directed to simply ‘ Follow the Yellow Brick Road ‘. Everything worked out well for them. They were eventually able to …
Earth, Air, Fire, Water & Life
EARTH . . . AIR . . . FIRE . . . WATER . . . Man is an animal that questions. All the time. Everything. I like that about him. He wants to know. All the time. It doesn’t really matter what. He wants to understand. In the beginning it was simply to survive. He needed to control his …
You Must Write It!
Back in the ‘ olden ‘ days, when we had to walk both ways to school, uphill, in 2 feet of snow, in July, life was difficult. Real tough. Not at all like what we have today, where we can get everything and anything you could ever want, delivered to your door by a guy in a brown suit ( …
Religion
Religion is tragically delicious. It is totally outrageous! This has to be one of, if not the most, curiously crazy concepts that man has ever come up with. Don’t get me wrong. You will not find someone who is more completely passionate, and intensely serious, when it comes to religion, and more specifically, spirituality. The search for spirituality, through the …
Eat Me !
Some people live to eat. A select few only eat to live. Most of us fit somewhere in between the two. Those that only eat to live, at least from my perspective, are missing out on one of the things that can add variety and excitement to our daily routines. It enhances our journey. It literally sprinkles some spice into …
Reality
What is this thing we call reality? And this is NOT a rhetorical question. No, really. I would like to know. I have been questioning this my whole life. Maybe more than one. One day you feel like you are starting to get it and the next?….. it’s gone, replaced with another question, another frustration, another confusion. A lot of …
The Road Not Taken
Today is a beautiful day. The presence of the sun does not matter. The temperature is irrelevant. It is a day of new expectations. It is an opportunity to take another step along the path. Ahh, the Path. The path of knowledge and enlightenment. Our path of discovery. Your path as well. The only path. A new day. A beautiful …
God Is So ….. Lonely
People are always telling you to try and put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Try to think about what they are thinking. What they are feeling. This can give you an invaluable insight into who and what they are. I have been trying to do this, for what seems like, almost forever. It is truly a window into someone else’s …
Journalism: R I P
Not just the death of an ideal. The death of a fundamental aspect of the ‘ Great American Experiment ‘. It will be impossible to continue the experiment without it. There can be no America without the so called ‘ Fourth Estate ‘. For those of you who are not current with exactly what is meant by the ‘ Fourth …
Truth
Truth is an absolute. Or is it? The discovery of truth has been a perpetual struggle. Not just for the individual, but for mankind, as a whole, as well. On the surface, the concept has a certain obviousness. As you spend time wrestling with the definition over time, you realize that it is one of the more complicated issues you …