Category Archives: Philosophy

We Continue to Insist on Happiness

To go to sleep is good. In sleep, I forget; and/or I don’t recognize it for what it is. It is reality; it is the thoughtlessness of we as a people, as a culture, as a nation; it is the … Continue reading

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Happiness taking a back seat

Last week, I stopped with – “I cannot undo what has been undone.” To review, I also said, “to do for oneself is to undo for others and to do for others one must undo for oneself.” And I said, … Continue reading

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Undoing Happiness

From dictionary.com: “righteous – characterized by uprightness or morality; morally right or justifiable; acting in an upright or moral way; virtuous.” To be critical of righteousness is to risk giving an impression of moral superiority when that quality in others … Continue reading

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Dicey Happiness

In this age of animosity, this era of exaggerated ego, these dark days of divisiveness, I have to add fuel and ask: Is poker more luck or more skill? There is some debate on this. Of course, the cards themselves … Continue reading

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What? That? Happiness

Flame.Fire.Magic. Reflection.Water.Purification. Substance.Earth.Burial. Feathers.Air.Lightness. BlueFlame.RedFlame. HotFire.ColdFire. BlackMagic.WhiteMagic. MirroredReflection.InnerReflection. ColdWater.StillWater. BodilyPurification.SpiritualPurification. ExanimateSubstance.ActiveSubstance. SustainableEarth.GenerativeEarth. MassBurial.PrematureBurial. FloatingFeathers.BrokenWings. WarpedAir.OminousAir. SeeingLightness.BeingLightness. Does it matter what I write? Or only that I write? The lines above have meaning, but who’s going to make the effort to … Continue reading

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