Philosophy
How Do We Know What We Know
A friend was telling me recently about visiting the Monarch Butterfly “landing spot” (my weak term, not theirs) in Mexico recently. These Monarchs fly 2,500 miles from Canada to a small plot of land in Mexico, but apparently they spend three generations in Mexico before heading back to Canada, where they return to the same tree […]
Life Lessons from a Swim Coach
I was a competitive swimmer for many years, including through college… but I don’t reflect on the act of swimming very often in my life today. Sure, I grew through it, primarily physically, but also in discipline and team dynamics. But nowadays, I find myself reflecting on two lessons taught many times by my swim […]
Timeless Wisdom
Dipping back into David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” commencement speech (turned book, previously referenced in my ‘stuck in traffic’ post), just because: a) it’s so full of wisdom that’s especially important and increasingly lost in the world today (seriously, listen to the whole thing); b) I end up referencing it to people fairly often; c) […]
On Psychic Energy and Quantum Entanglement
1 Do you believe in psychic energy? In other words, do you believe that there is some force or energy that emanates from our mind/soul/mental state (or chakras, auras, etc), that can effect others around us? Do we impact people beyond what we simply say and do and show them? Man, I feel like Miss […]