It was about two weeks after the Carr Fire. Maybe three. We met in a church. The room was full. We came – my wife and I – with the expectation that this would be a chance to heal from the mind-numbing horror that our daily life had become since the inferno had vaporized our home and all it contained and left a smoldering pile of ash, rack and ruin.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” William Blake Like so many of my thoughts, I have no clue where it came from. I’ve asked...
1) The prevailing view or consensus on climate change within the worldwide scientific community is that our climate is warming. https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ 2) Humans are seen as the principle cause of climate warming, primarily through...
Preface: In what seems like a lifetime ago, A News Café published part one of a piece I wrote titled “Explaining Myself,” in which I described a series of self-inflicted mishaps that I endured...
You know how sometimes an opening movie scene will abruptly show some graphic, what-the-hell moment with zero context, such as a dazed, sunburned person floating on a hunk of ship-wreckage in the middle of...
I live in Redding, Calif., where, along with a thousand of our neighbors, our home was rudely and suddenly consumed by a wall of fearless flame and summarily reduced to rambling heaps of sad ashes and shattered shards of her previous pride, scattered and strewn about carelessly in the solemn space that once comprised our ordered, routine and predictable life;
“After a mistake, any mistake, there is a moment that pleads for someone to say it wasn’t. And in its place, explain how it all fits in the grand design. That is what we...
We are all confused in this world. We desperately need certainty – some way to figure out who is right and who is wrong. We want to know who is good and who is bad so we know who to love and who to hate. We sort ourselves into our different teams or tribes and join the endless war where everyone knows their truth and talks and shouts at the same time and no one hears. No one listens.
“You are a secret that cannot be told. There is no way anyone can know the secret except by being close to you. Now you know why people want to be close to each...
“When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t...
