Through the Looking Glass
What is the Meaning of Life?
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Facebook has a group called “The Alan Watts & Buddhism Study Group” of which I’m a member. I don’t read all of the postings but one recently caught my eye.
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Facebook has a group called “The Alan Watts & Buddhism Study Group” of which I’m a member. I don’t read all of the postings but one recently caught my eye.
It was my younger brother who pulled me into becoming a Facebook member. He’d been following the activities of his three kids on it and thought I should be tuned in to the activities of the younger generation as well.
Recently I went on a binge of reading books about North Korea. The books below are non-fiction, but I want to mention the novel Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
Several years ago a friend who supports the Libertarian Party invited me to come along to a weekend gathering of libertarians in New Hampshire. It was called the Porcupine Freedom Festival – PorcFest for short.
As more of my friends and relatives have downsized, moved, or died, I have become conscious of how much clutter I am leaving behind for my family to clean up after my death; and I’ve started making plans to reduce the number of my possessions, leaving me with a simple and tidy environment.
One evening in 1971 I found myself on a street in Kathamandu with three acquaintances discussing where to go for dinner.
The Tytler Cycle theorizes that all civilizations go through eight stages.
My mind has been torn by football players kneeling at games during the national anthem to express their displeasure with certain aspects of our nation’s culture.
I had done a fair amount of genealogical research before someone mentioned to me that there were some old family letters with a cousin living in Williamstown, Mass.
I have always been enamored of the Episcopal Church, attracted by the dignity of its rituals, the beauty of its stained glass, its seeming grasp of eternal truths.