In stages of development, the first stage of development, as manifested, is the capacity to take perspectives other than ones own; the second includes a capacity for awareness training; and the third is the capacity to tolerate ambiguity. Original writing date: June 19, 2006

In stages of development, the first stage of development, as manifested, is the capacity to take perspectives other than ones own; the second includes a capacity for awareness training; and the third is the capacity to tolerate ambiguity. Original writing date: June 19, 2006

Kosmos, in the original Greek, meant the multi-dimensional totality of manifest reality spanning material, biological, psychological, psychic, and spiritual domains. Today, we know the cosmos is nothing other than universe and we have eliminated the balance of those integral dimensions. Original writing date: June 19, 2006

Life finds a way. Original writing date: 10/30/06 Life reveres the dead, but supports the living. Original writing date: 06/26/07

From an article Absence of ambition by Kathleen Parker. “Want has a scent. It reeks of rapaciousness and oozes from the pores of the overly ambitious. Far more appealing are those who don’t lust quite so much. One has to want to win, obviously. Duty alone isn’t enough to sustain a candidate in today’s pitiless [...]