Over the years I’ve had fleeting recollections of thoughts and fears that passed through my mind as a child. They were often fragile, ill-defined and sometimes trivial-seeming, so I never dwelled on them much. But from my current vantage point, I think they’re worth pondering. It’s impossible to quantify but…

I’m sick of the whole COVID thing and I don’t want to think or talk about it anymore. I just need to get one last thing out of my system and the only reason I bother is because I haven’t seen or heard it brought up anywhere. This is it: …

It’s an odd and sickly society we live in. It has always struck me as odd that we’re conditioned to thank service members for their service. I understand the risks many have taken, putting their lives on the line and so many more, who we’ll never be able to thank…

We live in a time when there is a staggering amount of propaganda injected into citizens’ brains daily. The average citizen has lost any semblance of a handle on reality. …

We must especially beware of attending too much in any era to what emerges as authority. As long as we lack spiritual insight, this can seriously mislead us. This is particularly true in one area of human culture: the field of materialistic medicine. Here we can discern the decisive influence…

A summary of hard lessons learned during a year of turmoil — This year I learned: Excessive fear can and will create a state of being very much like mental illness - even in people who may otherwise seem stable and rational. Our government is actively seeking to create a state of fear and panic among the general population. …

It was autumn 1980 and I’d been with the Public Works Department for over two years. Not a bad gig; decent pay and fairly light work. But it was also a time when, for a short stretch, I started dreading going to work. …