I have always felt the omnipresence of surveillance. If it isn’t God observing my thoughts and actions (not directly verifiable), it’s family, friends, lovers, priests, psychologists, police and teachers...

A revolution is happening that is changing the way we understand the world. Data scientists Tristan Harris and Asa Raskin, co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology and the driving force behind Netflix’s...

I can recognize a Conspiracy theory because it is so kludge-like, so huggermugger—it looks like one, it sounds like one; ergo, it must be one. Pizzagate is generally considered a predecessor to the QAnon...

“The secret behind things is that they have no essence.” –Foucault I am not my driver’s ID, nor my social security number. I feel, at times, like an evolving self or many selves or an incarnated...

Darren Aronofsky’s 2014 film, Noah, has generated considerable controversy for deviating from the original depiction of events in the flood story, as related in the Tanakh (or Old Testament).  How much...

In the process of examining a particular artwork in a gallery, the mind wanders and then comes back into attentiveness; and when this attentiveness is extended over a period, a sense of losing oneself...

I was walking along a path deep in conversation with a friend. We were talking about “tigles,” tiny rainbow spheres that can appear during open-eye meditation, when I saw a flash of light shooting...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, the club-like residence of former U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida, for documents that were a part of the national archive....

Rituals help us understand a world that is in a state of constant change, according to Associate Professor and Museum of Culture and Environment Director Hope Amason during a talk she gave at the Hal Holmes...

       It’s often been said, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and this might be so, but if you are blind, beauty is felt by the handler.     In his October 2019 Poetry...

The question of whether all drugs should be legal is a complex one, although it is has often been answered with a yes or no. There are drugs used to cure ailments of the body, insulin for diabetes, antibiotics...

Then she stood up, put her jacket back on with the same robotlike movements, and left.   —Albert Camus (The Stranger)  I was in line at Safeway in Ellensburg, and a woman ahead of me had four...

Between University Avenue and E.7th Street and between Samson and Walnut, in Ellensburg, there’s some wild Nature—not exactly Wilderness—but a patch of land left alone and gone to seed.  The trail...

Dear Thoreau, Salutations from my outpost in the Pacific Northwest.  I can imagine you snug in your cabin at Walden Pond.  I know you’ve only received one or two letters in your life that you considered...

The Greek word for happiness is “eudaimonia” which literally means a state of “good spirit” and by extension,  “to flourish,” like an animal in good health; eudaimonia seemed to be achieved...