That my father was a difficult man is a commonly shared viewpoint by most people who knew him. He died at the age of 89 in 2008. He was an astrogeologist at the right place at the right time. The minerals he discovered from craters in Arizona and Germany were called “tektite” and “coesite”, scientific […]
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my father, myself
Posted in Family, Life & Spirit, tagged astrogeology, coesite, intuition, tektite, tiger dad on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
being happy enough. . .
Posted in Life & Spirit, tagged being content, being driven, being-not doing, contentment, less is more, relax, striving on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here in America, the land of opportunity, we work harder than anyone else, strive to change ourselves from the outside in or from the inside out. We are encouraged to improve, to eat better, work better, make things better, BE a better person. Constantly. Everywhere you look. I have been there. Today, I thought about […]
kindred spirits. . .
Posted in Life & Spirit, Music, tagged African violets, artist, Charles Schultz, christmas cactus, gloxinias, john cage, kindred spirits, loners, macrobiotic, margaret leng tan, Mies van der Rohe, OCD, Peanuts, piano, Satie, Schroeder, Toby Twining, toy piano on March 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a self-described loner, the number of friends I have can be counted on one hand. Most of them are loners too, a few even more reclusive than I am. They are all artists of one kind or another. Their eye, hand and spirit are usually mucking around in what they are making, the instruments […]
stirring the pot. . .
Posted in Family, Life & Spirit, tagged agriculture, American Airlines, biocatalysis, biotechnology, cloning, diagnostics, erythropoietin, Frankfurt, procrit, project management, roses, Science, Sevruga caviar on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Although I sometimes think of myself as being quiet and solitary, (“a taoist hermit”), in my professional working life, I was anything but. Although I tried very hard each time I was the “newest kid on the block,” to keep my mouth shut and not challenge anybody, it was hard for me to do any […]
an american dream . . .
Posted in Life & Spirit, tagged "The Woman Upstairs", Burdick's, Claire Messud, Harvard Square, Jamaica Plain, Manchester by the Sea, Wellfleet on May 9, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I’m immersed in reading Claire Messud’s new novel, “The Woman Upstairs.” It is set in Cambridge and Boston so it’s entertaining to read about characters who meet at Burdick’s in Harvard Square, have friends whom they visit in Jamaica Plain, parents who go to Wellfleet for their anniversary and whose heroine grew up in Manchester […]
“gift from the sea” . . .
Posted in Family, Life & Spirit, tagged "Gift from the Sea", Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Bryn Mawr College, Charles Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh, Smith College on February 10, 2013 | 5 Comments »
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (AML) wrote a book called “Gift from the Sea” that was published in 1955. It became a best seller and is considered a seminal book in the feminist movement, largely because it was an early forerunner written in a gentle tone reflecting how hard it can be for women to have a […]
nature and nurture . . .
Posted in happiness, joy, Life & Spirit, tagged burrows, deer mice, Dr. Hopi Hoekstra, genetics, go with the flow, Harvard, luck, nature, nurture, Zen on January 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Today, there’s a fascinating article in the Science section of the Times which describes the work of Dr. Hopi Hoesktra, a biology geneticist at Harvard. Her recently published paper in Nature outlines work her team of researchers have done to distinguish genetically traceable traits in two different species of deer mice by the way that […]
signs . . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alan Watts, Bill Porter, Boulder Mountain Zendo, cosmos, Harvard Mediation Program, I-Ching, John Tarrant, Mediation, Red Pine, signs, Tanahashi, Zen on August 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes, I find that signs are visual, like a white bird that appeared three weeks ago, flying along the highway next to my car, then fluttering right in front of my windshield before flying off. It seemed like some kind of sign, but different from all the red cardinals which have swooped in front of […]
anniversary . . .
Posted in Family, Life & Spirit, thanks, tagged 1st year, comments, feedback, milestone, starting a blog process on February 23, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Well, here it is: the anniversary of the first post on my blog, last February 23, 2011. It has come a long way since then and like much of life, has taken its own path. When I first started out,I began the blog with an intent to model thoughts that might inspire others to share […]
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