Follow the Floor LightingYou likely recognize these words. It’s from the safety announcement we all sit through every time we’re on an airplane. “In the unlikely event of an emergency... follow the floor lighting…” It somehow reassures...
Just Three Things“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.” (Lao Tzu) Well, that sounds simple. But do I have the patience to let it sink in? And do I have the compassion to respond from a point of view other than my...
Just Three Things“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.” (Lao Tzu) Well, that sounds simple. But do I have the patience to let it sink in? And do I have the compassion to respond from a point of view other than my...
Hidden But Always PresentRemember autostereograms? They were big in the 1990s. Computer-generated images looking like a kaleidoscope of colored bits shaken into rows and columns. Look at them and you see just the 2D bits. But rela...
Phantoms?“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self." (Lao Tzu) How often we imagine futures in which we are better off in one way or another. Such futures are surely to be hoped for. But wait, what if the fu...