“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn’t matter much to me.

Let me take you down, ’cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever.”

History tells us John Lennon was amused ...

“There is no place in this new kind of physics for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality”  – Albert Einstein

I used to believe institutions, and society as a whole, would help me gain perspective and create meaning in my life.  They would define the limits of possibility, and provide the rules and principles I would need to be fulfilled, grow, ...

Drinking coffee with friends, I loved myself dearly.  We all did really.  We would talk for hours about the meaning of life, referencing Kierkegaard, Camus, Dostoevsky, or any number of courageous thinkers we admired.  And I remember looking upon issue after issue with cool detachment as if I were a scientist observing what I saw from a microscope.  We’d examine different schools of thought and discuss their positive ...

“I don’t give a damn for a man who can only spell a word one way.”  – Mark Twain

It’s easy to lionize art.  The mere mention of it conjures up images of freedom and creativity.  Science…not so much.  And yet, both science and art are essential.  Each gives life to the other.

Many moons ago, medieval mapmakers depicted dragons on the far edges of their maps. Hic sunt ...