January 2020 My thoughts have turned in the past week to memories of experiences difficult to classify using the categories we commonly operate within in the course of daily life.  I can remember such experiences all the way back to early adulthood.  They form their own thread of continuity over the course of my lifetime.  In my current phase of life with plenty of time to pay attention to such things, I'm intrigued by what [...]

January 2020 I just finished watching a "documentary" about Guatemala.  It purports to be factual.  On the basis of that film by itself I'd consider myself a fool for not getting on the next plane headed there, it's so beautiful and inviting.  But the "documentary" is in point of fact an hour-long travel brochure.  I just finished three years of global nomading and one of the earliest lessons to learn as a nomad is not [...]

January 2020 Well, we finally made it to 2020.  About damn time.  I studiously avoided reading the many articles I came across going on about what a crap decade 2010-2019 was.  I was there, I don't need any reminders, thanks kids.  My thoughts have been trained instead on how to made the decade just begun better than the last.  New Year's resolutions obviously won't cut the mustard, what we need is strategy.  We need a [...]