It was at point in this season that my consciousness entered its fleshly vessel (or was created by the same, depending upon your point of view) … “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body … And yet in truth we must no more ask whether the Soul and body […]
My physical birth took place in this month (here on planet Earth, a universal jewel that whirls & dances within the vastness of space; doing so completely free of the man-made confines of creed or culture or nationality) … “Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which we all look out upon the […]
My early toddlerhood – like every other human being’s earliest years – was a time steeped in utter Amazement & pure unfettered Love … “The pursuits of truth and beauty and kindness are spheres of activity in which we are all permitted to remain children for the entirety of our lives.” ~ via Albert Einstein
This was my time of Growing UP; being cared for by my parents, welcoming my younger brother into the world, and allowing the seeds of my moral foundation to be sown & tended: seeds that would indeed sprout and encourage me to have compassion for the downtrodden, feel indignation towards all forms of injustice & […]
My adolescence years – much like the years of so many of my peers past & present – regularly had me seemingly stuck in the “smaller self” of my ego; caked in its intoxicating mix of self-absorbed fears & selfish longings … “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem … […]
My high school years began this year, and I found myself soon deeply inspired by the life & words of Martin Luther King Jr. … “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live … An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic […]
My high school days continued, and I became inspired by the deeper meanings of both film & novel (especially the words of Yoda — his earlier, muppet version, of course) … “Do or do not … There is no try.” ~ Yoda
I then arrived at Carlsbad Caverns, home to roughly 1 million Mexican Freetail bats (along with thousands of other bats from 16 other species). This was the first primary stop on the cross-country mobile-home tour my mother & brother & I made that summer … “Man is not himself only … He is all that […]
The Petrified Forest National Park was the second major stop along our aforementioned cross-country tour. These trees were rapidly & deeply buried by volcanic ash roughly 200 million years ago, quickly enough & deeply enough that their contact with oxygen was cut off and their decay thereby slowed enough to allow silica and other minerals […]
Our next stop had us soaking in the wonders of Bryce Canyon National Park … “The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the planet which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, […]
Zion National Park was this summer’s next destination. Originally called Mukuntuweap (the southern Paiute word for “straight canyon”) National Monument by President Howard Taft, it was expanded and renamed Zion (the Hebrew word for “sanctuary” or “refuge”) National Park in 1919 … “A human being is a part of the whole called the Universe by […]
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