War and human nature

Reading The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War, by David Livingstone Smith. The author is a philosopher but here incorporates cognitive ...

Eustace Conway

Eustace Conway has all of the physical skills necessary to be an American hermit. He has lived for years in the Appalachian Mountains in a tepee, without runnin...

Gratitude

Gratitude is amorphous, ambiguous. We consider gratitude a virtue but see it used in petty, trivial, and self-serving ways. On the one hand gratitude acknowledg...

Threads

Memories are like threads in a box, a box of remnants and potentials, cast away from daily utility, a cache of what was or could have made a whole, supporting o...