Category Archives: Essays
The Purpose of Life is …
… to Live! This has been verified, once again, through my listening to Alan Watts, may he RIP, while I exercised on a machine that emulates cross-country skiing—something I haven’t done, other than on the machine, that is. Watts verifies the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Memoirs
Tagged Alan Watts, Berkeley, Cuban Missile Crisis, G.K. Chesterton, life, living, Norm Breyfogle, U.C. Berkeley, Ulvsundasjön, USSR
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Words
Words, Words, Words. My head is filled with words; my mouth issues streams of words; my pencil scribbles across the page … toward what end? Or is it just a compulsion, nervous or otherwise…or no-wise, given that “nervous” is just … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Confucius, G.I. Gurdjieff, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Sierra Nevada, words
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The Pavellas Perspective 