If you had to sum up your philosophy of life, what would you say? I recently had a few correspondences with an old friend from school days who is going through some health issues. I spoke pretty matter-of-factly, and upon re-reading it, it struck me that this is probably closest to my current life philosophy […]
Category: esoteric
Risk Management & Impulsivity
I suppose training as a pilot has benefited me much more than just learning how to get off of and back onto the ground safely in an airplane. Thank goodness that aviation safety is a major part of earning one’s wings these days. In pilot training we learn about accident chains and how to avoid […]
A Multi-Solipsistic View
People poo-pooh the belief system of solipsism, saying it’s smack-dab within the realm of narcissism. However, solipsism is not exactly the same as narcissism. It’s easy to group the two together, for they share similar constructs, and in many ways could be considered synonymous. Solipsism is defined according to Wikipedia as: “Solipsism is the philosophical […]
30 Years
Today marks the 30th anniversary of my decision to stop drinking. I call it my rebirthday. This was accomplished not by my willpower, it was accomplished only through Grace. If life is a school, some lessons are hard-learned. For me this was one of them and it took a lot of damage and misery to […]
Equity In Creativity
Much has been said lately of the need to revisit the way recording artists are being paid. Especially now, in the midst of the pandemic driven life changes. The old accounting system is hopelessly arcane in this information age. Performance royalties are still based upon the old so-many-cents per spin at a radio station, which […]
Solar Supernova (fiction)
The first sign was the heat. Not the usual summer swelter, but a creeping, insidious warmth that seeped into bones and chilled marrow. People dismissed it as a freak weather anomaly, a cruel joke of nature. But there was an undercurrent of unease, a collective shiver that hinted at something more profound. Then came the […]
Love = Time ??
As many know, there is a familiar saying that “love equals time.” While it’s true that we naturally gravitate toward activities and relationships that we love, those that satisfy our passions, there is a definite difference between love and time. The saying is partially correct, there is indeed a correlation, but they are not equal. […]
Quantum
As many friends know, occasionally I muse, and frequently lament the state of rock music as it applies to both today’s live and recording landscape. It has devolved over the decades into a seemingly endless desert where every day that you stride toward, you end up further away from the distant cool mountain springs. The […]
Question 31 … : What is the meaning of life?
Every once in a while I’ll go through my Google bookmarks bar and tidy it up. See what’s still relevant and what’s not, and cull it to my more current temporal interests. I have a batch of folders on the top bar, each dedicated to a field of interest with the links placed in their […]
JWST
Being a lifelong lay student of astronomy, I tuned into a live-feed YouTube channel to view new pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The images were breathtaking in their clarity, more so than the Hubble Space Telescope, and even much more so than any terrestrial telescope. They punctuated the point of how large […]