eThoughts

Welcome to eThoughts, a friendly stream-of-consciousness wonderment (okay, sometimes it’s a caustic stream-of-semi-consciousness wonderment).

Love as a Construct	Just because love may be basic to the universe, doesn’t mean it doesn’t manifest in many forms.
The Search for Blessedness	The Blessedness/no blessedness; Grace/no grace paradigm.
Imposing versus Implementing Reality	Intimacy and Options
Free to Not Think?	Sometimes Thinking is the Problem
The World and The Road	Evolution and Driving
Dogs and Their People	Evolution and Owning Dogs
Dementia and Attention	Evolution, Dementia and Attention
What is the Truth Again?	That Elusive Entity Called Truth
Holiday Thoughts	Some Holiday Considerations
The Ordinary/Non-Ordinary Paradox	The Pursuit of Specialness
On Being Incompetent	What’s our Definition?
More on Mind	The Evolution of Evaluation
The Arrow of Direction	We’re Going Where?
Conflict and Cahoots	And We Need The Great Conflict?
Freedom, Choice, And Enlightenment	The Role of Attention
More About The Now	Attention and Time
Divergence I	Stream of Consciousness as Poems
Divergence II	Stream of Consciousness as a Short Story
Divergence III	Stream of Consciousness as a Short Story, Part II
Baba Ram Dass and Fierce Grace	Grace May Not Only Be What We Think It Is
Polishing Awareness	Awareness, Experience, Grace, and Creation
More About Intention and Attention	Chakras, Chi, and Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang
Shifting Realities and Attention	Gestalt, Figure/Grounds, and Forgiveness
Starting Anew	The 1960s: Illusion and Promise
Where to Begin?	Starting With Ourselves and Our Neighborhoods
Voting and Democracy	Voting, Freedom, and Choice
Voting and Awareness	About Curtains, Levers, and Wizards
Holiday Thoughts, 2004	About Good Will
Holiday Thoughts, 2004: Part II	About Grace, Again
Patterns I	An Ode To Us: Emotional Hummingbirds, Sun Spot Cycles, and Romantic Dinosaurs
Patterns II	The Slow, Insistent Learning
Patterns III	Times of Recapitulation and Review
Patterns IV	Dogs, Pet Owners, Attention, Inattenion, and Running Appliances
A Sky Made of Shoes	Optimism versus Pessimism
Meanings and Meaninglessness	What in the Cosmos is Meaningless?
Political Thoughts I	“Ownership Society:” Who is in Charge?
Political Thoughts II	“Ownership Society:” Refining Our Ideas
Political Thoughts III	More About an “Ownership Society.”
Political Thoughts IV	Packrat Syndrome and an “Ownership Society.”
Reigning Fiascos	On Justice and Injustice.
The Art of Emptiness and Form	From Egocentric to Holocentric.
Just Wondering	The Question Journey.
The Importance of a Cause	The Noble Conflict Makes the Noble Life?
Intelligent Design, Volitional Evolution, Language and Reality	The Evolution Question.
The Art of Judgments	Making Judgments and not Enemies.
Judgments, Discrimination, and Dehumanization	Making Judgments Without Dehumanizing.
The Art of Drama	Loss, Theatre, and Drama-Making.
The Art of Leaving	Leaving and Change are Not Our Enemies.
Forget About It	The Role of Forgetting.
Obeying and Resistance	Who has the Authority?
Finding Guarantees	What does Life have to Offer?
Been Gone a Long Time	Home is Where You can Freely Breathe
Politics	Voting and Choices
The Art of Withdrawal	Leaving Can Be a Good Thing
Holiday Thoughts for 2006	The Art of Consideration
Looking for a Good Used Spaceship	The Gift of Help
New Year’s Thoughts for 2006	Ponderings and Resolutions
New Year’s Thoughts for 2006: Part Deux	Yep, More Ponderings and Resolutions
Some Promise, Little Achievement	Where to Turn When Dreariness Reigns
Emphasize the Promise and Achievement Will Come	Letting Essence Help
Journeying in Purgatorio	Journey, But Don’t Get Stuck
Dogs, Egos, Personality, and Salvation	Moving Beyond the Ego Dogs
Fundamentals Before Complexity	Small Steps First, Bigger Steps Later
Celebrate Eating the Apple?	Forbidden or Necessary Fruit?
The Philosophical Umbrella	What’s Protecting Humanity?
More About Fundamentals	From the Simple to the Complex
Legality and Stewardship	Legal versus Moral Ownership?
Memorial Day, 2006	To Honor Veterans is to Honor Peace
A Letter to Arlee	Relatives are Related
A Letter to the Family	More on Relatives are Related
Boundaries and Independence Day	Independence AND Interdependence
The Practice of Seeing Reality	Towards an Uncontaminated View
Sacred But Not Exclusive, Part I	The Myth of Exclusivity
Sacred But Not Exclusive, Part II	Exclusivity Myths Again
Our Problems: Global or Local?	Big Problems, Local Answers?
Cohort Communities: Housing People of Like Minds	Inattentive Works Best With the Inattentive
The Art of Decentration	Shifting Centric Views?
The Art of Reversibility	Learning By Backtracking
Holiday Thoughts	December 2006
We Are and The Age of Clarity	Next-Step Evolution?
2007 New Year’s Thoughts	Soul, Integrity, and Terror
Struggling vs Suffering	Do We Really Need to Suffer?
Fixing a Hole	Keeping Up With Stuff
Life in the Way of Living	Is Life an Intrusion Upon Our Sacred Space?
Change and Maintenance	The Odd Couple
Possessions, Needs, and Satisfaction	Packrating Love and Beauty?
Journeying in Purgatorio	Talk About a Trip
The Soul of Us	What Do We Contribute?
Ahhh, Depression	The Art of Sad
Ahhh, Dissociation	The Art of Detachment
May 20, 2007: In Memoriam	Transitions
Change and Stability, Living and Dying	Transitions, Part II
What Our Soldiers are NOT Fighting For	Liberties Taken is Not Freedom Preserved
Individual and Group Intelligence and Retardation	Swarms, Individuals, and Survival
Age of Ignorance?	How Evolved Have We Become?
A Call to Politicians	Institutional versus Personal Power: Get It or Get Gone
Vacations, Part I	Interaction With The Wilderness
Vacations, Part II	Interaction With The Family
Psychology and the Media	Therapy as Entertainment?
Entertainment and Information	Meaning, Attention, and Responsibility
Got Energy?	There’s Enough, Just Know Which Kind
Endings and Forevers	Perhaps There’s Something In-Between
Random Holiday Thoughts: Part I	December 2007
Random Holiday Thoughts: Part II	December 2007, Continued
The Need for Devils, Part I	New Year’s Thoughts: January 2008
The Need for Devils, Part II	2008 New Year’s Thoughts Continued
Politics, Voting, And Slogans	February 1, 2008: Running for Political Office, Part I
Politics, Voting, and Economics	Running for Political Office, Part II
Civility vs Genuineness	March 1, 2008: Being Genuine May Not Always Be Revealing
Expanding vs Narrowing Awareness	Freedom and Awareness
Blame and Fault	April 1, 2008: The Attribution Game
Learning to Listen And Awareness	The End of Relationship Chaos
Our Yes and Our No, Part I	May 1, 2008: Yes Is Affirmation and No Rejection?
Our Yes and Our No, Part II	Setting Limits, Gaining Freedom
Ben Stein’s Movie	June 1, 2008: Facts and Foibles About Evolution?
Communion and Crucifixion	A Thought About Love
Vulnerability, Part I	July 1, 2008: Updating Darwin?
Vulnerability, Part II	Joy at the Expense of Another??
Wanderlust Begins Again	August 1, 2008: Random Musings Before a Journey?
More About Wanderlust	Learning the Art of Hellos and Goodbyes
September 1, 2008: Purgatorians	Blocked Doorways and That Darn Helper Gene?
Purgatorio and Presidential Elections	Purgatorians and Voting
October 1, 2008: The Lazy Mind	Paying Attention Buys Attention
The End of Crucifixions	The Art of Putting Up With Beauty
November 1, 2008: Election Time	Voting and Attention
Helping All of Us	The Art of consideration
November 15, 2008: Truth, Belief, and Wisdom	Awareness Without Perception
Gaining Wisdom	Checking Belief and Truth with Reality
December 1, 2008: Holiday Thoughts	On Having Plenty
More Holiday Cheer?	The Art of Play
January 1, 2009: The Little Things	From Whence Good?
The Big Things?	From Whence Evil?
February 1, 2009: Psychology, Rhetoric, and Grace	Prayer and the Presidential Inauguration
Psychology and the Economy	A Psychological Stimulus Package?
March 1, 2009: Intimacy	What is It?
Passion and Commitment	What are They?
April 1, 2009: Psychology Runs Through It	Psychology and Pretty Much Everything
Perfection	What Is It?
May 1, 2009: Conflict	It Doesn’t Have to be so Bad
Community	Go Farther Together?
June 1, 2009: To-Do Alphas and Evolution	What’s Important?
Dreaming	Alternate Realities
July 1, 2009: Commencement, Graduation, Discipline, Freedom, And Stewardship	The Three Pillars
Speaking of Commencement…	The Relationship Mess
August 1, 2009: Just Beyond Projection, Part I	Beyond the Horizon
Just Beyond Projection, Part II	Reality Before Humans
September 1, 2009: This and That, Part I	Family Vacations
This and That, Part II	Camping and Health
October 1, 2009: Soul Mates	Less Than We Think?
Marriage	More Than We Know?
November, 1, 2009: Songs, Part I	Bad Poetry
Songs, Part II	Bad Poety Again
December 1, 1, 2009: Holy-Days, Part I	Many Celebrations
Holy-Days, Part II	The One and The Many
January 1, 2010: Holiday Adventures	Family and Christmas
A New Year and Shifting Identity	Medicine and a “New” Me
February 1, 2010: Pain and Mobility	Pain as a Friend, Pain as a Foe
Clamping Down	And Letting Go
March 1, 2010: Doing Much of Nothing	The Importance of Doing Nothing
The Cognitive/Emotional Strobe-Light Effect and Bumper-Sticker Philosophies	Too Much Craziness
April 1, 2010: Extinction	Some Extinctions Need to Happen
The Extinction of Idiocy	The Cry Over Big Government Versus Individual Rights
May 1, 2010: Conundrum, Part I	The Taker and the Taken
Conundrum, Part II	Being Understood vs. Understanding
June 1, 2010: Rejection, Part I	Memorial Day and the Future
Rejection, Part II	Human Disorders and the Future
July 1, 2010: Life Doesn’t Repeat Itself, We Do	The Art of Framing
Unfettered Awareness	Looking for a Constant?
August 1, 2010: More About Moving Beyond “I Am” to “We Are”	Musings from the Cognitive Outback
We Are	A Little Dose of Courage
September 1, 2010: Leadership and Intimacy	Hierarchies can Impede Development
Leadership and Awareness	Who or What is in Charge?
October 1, 2010: The Change/Stability Paradox	Know Which Horse You’re Riding
Leaning Towards the Light, Enjoying the Shadows, And Loving the Night	Learning to Relate Differently
November 1, 2010: Welcome to My Grandson	Grandfather Musing, Part I
A Grandfather’s Vision	Grandfather Musing, Part II
December 1, 2010: Holiday Thoughts, Part I	Some Things Learned?
Holiday Thoughts, Part II	Let’s Celebrate
January 1, 2011: Auld Lang Syne	The Good, Good-Bye; The Good Hello
More For a New Year	Relationships Are All We Have
February 1, 2011: Sleepless in Nuevo	Gender and the Rationalization Niche
Still Sleepless in Nuevo	It Takes Advertising?
March 1, 2011: Thoughts in Bad Poetic Form	Musings on a Rainy Night
To Breathing	More Musings on a Rainy Night
April 1, 2011: Trying to Find Joy in Purgatorio	It’s a Mess Because it’s Purgatorio, Folks!
Let’s Misbehave	Here’s to Good Misbehaving!
May 1, 2011: Reality?	It’s One Thing?
Equanimity	Reality Theater
June 1, 2011: Reality Making	Is Our Notion of Time in the Way?
The Smartest Person in the World	How Frightening Would That Be?
July 1, 2011: The Slums of Heaven	We can Ding Paradise
The Palaces of Hell	We Can See a Shine in Hell
August 1, 2011: Weirdness	We’re Our Own Problem
More Nonsense?	Knowledge Before Position
September 1, 2011: Conversations With a Magical Deer	Wilderness Adventures
Conversations With a Magical Raven	Wilderness Adventures, Part II
October 1, 2011: Badges, Prison Stripes, And Other Defining Garb	Human Roles
Keeping One’s Head Down and One’s Attention Up	Looking Out
November 1, 2011: Intimacy is Not One Thing	Intimacy as a Collage
Sometimes I Doan Wanna Pay Attention Anymore	Survive or Thrive?
December 1, 2011: Holiday Thoughts, Part I	Odd Gifts
Holiday Thoughts, Part II	The Gift of Being Wrong
January 1, 2012: Clutter, Part I	Reflections on the Past
Clutter, Part II	Reflections on the Future
February 1, 2012: Consequences, Part I	The ABCs of Our Doings
Consequences, Part II	Accepting Consequences
March 1, 2012: Goodness of Fit	We’ve Got to Find the Fit
Courage	None Are Left Behind
April 1, 2012: To Be Involved or Not To Be Involved—That is the Question	Retreat or Press On?
Our Relationship and Influence With Perception	Perceptions Are a Stewardship
May 1, 2012: Beauty, Delight, and Adventure	On Getting Away
Wild Boar in a Tree	Signs
June 1, 2012: Thriving	Just Surviving Isn’t Good Enough
Slouching Towards Thriving?	Finding the Gleam in a Debris Field
July 1, 2012: Decisions, Part I	The Cooperative Thrive
Decisions, Part II	About Us
August 1, 2012: Dick and Jane, Part I	A Story About Belief
Dick and Jane, Part II	Belief versus Seeing
September 1, 2012: A Grin and Grim Short Story, Part I	In A Beginning
A Grin and Grim Short Story, Part II	Learning to Remember
October 1, 2012: Personal Sabotage	Negative feedback can be very helpful
Group Sabotage	How group sabotage can be good information
November 1, 2012: More Caring and Less Carrying?: Political Diversions, Part I	Diversions can be Deluding
More Caring and Less Carrying?: Political Diversions, Part II	Diversions are, well, diversions.

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