Henry Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachel Carson all heard voices.Not the alarming kind.The useful kind. The voices came from trees, breezes, tide pools, and long silences.You should probably lend an ear. Scientists now tell us that trees “talk” to one another through their roots, sending underground messages about drought, disease, […]
“We don’t need more ladder climbers, fame seekers, and adulation hunters.We need more caregivers and reconstructors of broken souls—people who tell uplifting stories to the lonely, the depressed, and the beaten down.”—The Dalai Lama (This is the nicest way a holy man can say: “Stop being jerks and help somebody.”) […]
BROWNIE BOY’S ROADKILL — RUN OVER BY THE SNEAKER STREAKER Listen up, fellow octogenarians. If you feel the “walls are closing in,” that’s not fate — it’s wallpaper. Turn off […]
1933 GERMAN REICHSTAG PARLIAMENT BUILDING IN FLAMES Our nation is polarized today, with democracy under stress. A college friend wrote to me:“This is a repeat of 1933. Violence destroyed Germany’s […]
Forget the universe. Forget James Webb’s sparkly deep-space selfies. That cosmic fireworks show is so far beyond our puny cranial RAM that even if we doubled our IQs, it’d be […]
Back in the Truman administration, Mom read me the Cinderella story about a prince who brought his entire kingdom to a screeching halt to track down a woman who lost […]