Yearly Archives: 2009
Father’s Day 2009
My father would have been 98 this year. I wrote this poem about him several years before he died, and it still expresses much of who he was to me then. Later, even after his death, I added some more dimensions to my knowledge of him. He was above all…
Painless Bio-fuel
As we begin to finally get serious about our exploration of alternative energy generation technologies, we run heading, over and over again, with classic good-news/bad-news scenarios. Solar power is the absolute cleanest source of electricity, but it’s also expensive and takes up a lot of space. Wave energy is free,…
Just Do It
I read this quotation from Abraham Lincoln on Twitter just now: “Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.” It reminded me of a situation I was once in, and for the first time I can recall, I did just what Abe would…
Forgiveness: a short course
It’s All Stories
The Simple Truth About the Media
Technology
Although the term technology has become closely bound to science, even the word science itself has its roots in a time long before the scientific method was formalized. Basically, it means the search for knowledge. Technology is the application of that knowledge, presumably to one’s advantage. So technology can be…
The Power of Choice
There is a subtle but critical difference between intellectual and personal acceptance. It took me a lot of years to reach the place where I felt I had to go one way or the other, the conventional reality view or Seth’s. When that time came, my choice was to consciously,…