Author: Tom
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Being the Best You Can Be
Carl Jung wrote: “Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in…
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Lightman, Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Science
SEARCHING explores the human questions raised by today’s science: Where do we fit in the scheme of things? How can consciousness, music, even love arise from atoms and molecules? What human qualities will we retain as we become part machine? Renowned physicist Alan Lightman questions scientists at research labs, as well as philosophers and faith…
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Island Universes
“Every Human Group Is A Society Of Island Universes.” Aldous Huxley In a real sense, I am my own island universe. I, with my tribal genes and steeped in my tribal culture struggle, and often fail, to see beyond my orbit. Maria Popover in Brain Pickings, (now called Marginalian), examines the struggle through the lens of…
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Frederick Buechner
A friend pointed me to a David Brooks column devoted to Frederick Buechner — The Man Who Found His Inner Depths. Buechner, who died in 2022, is best known as a writer about humans. His novels have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was also an active Presbyterian minister. In…