I find it absolutely brilliant when someone I am speaking with or who reads something I’ve written has questions. It isn’t always easy to answer them. Mostly because I have been me and done what I do for so long that I forget the answers. Spiritual work is my first…

For a few moments I was tempted to title this Staying Alive, but it honestly doesn’t fit this article’s topic. Too bad, Bee Gees. Several of the easiest, least complicated articles to write have come when a reader has asked me to either further explain an already discussed topic or…

A few days ago I was speaking with a pair of clerks in a local grocery store. One of the men was in his early twenties. The other appeared to be in his sixties. We began by chatting about generalities. The conversation evolved into the elder gentleman telling the younger…

In Charleston, SC, there was a lawyer several years older than I and, in that land of separate and unequal social strata, several rungs above me. Unlike almost every other person of his social class, he could have cared less. We became acquainted because our social circles overlapped. He had…

Ever since writing the last three articles on my experiences in France I wondered what to write next. How about if I put together some explanatory notes to what I wrote? That may make the waters less muddy. Never mind that it could also be confusing. Writing another installment could…

LIVING IN THE SWAMPS I want to go back to Paris with someone who can show me the city through modern eyes. Send me the man or woman who does not remember what it looked like before the twentieth or twenty-first centuries. Give me someone who has no idea of what Paris looked like…

ON THE ROADS Sometimes I block out everything I might see in the physical world that gets in the way of the life of the spirit. If I don’t like the news on the television, I turn it off. If I am not interested in what someone is telling me about the terrible…

Part 1 Other Places, Other Names Some people go to the Grand Canyon. Others go to the local root beer stand. While others travel around the world. Who knows where you’ll go next for vacation? One friend flew around the world this summer. Eventually the person landed back home in France for a couple of weeks…

For a longer time than I can remember I have found it difficult to be in crowds. Even from my earliest days being anyplace where there were crowds was sure to be a gut wrenching experience. Nowadays there are many places I refuse to go. Movies and concerts have been…