by Think In The Morning | May 8, 2026 | Words |
I’m waiting for the dragonflies. Darners, the long-bodied, fast, almost hawk-like dragonflies. Skimmers and Dashers, the ones you most often notice sitting on a twig. They perch, launch, and return over and over. They are blue, orange, and red and have patterned...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 20, 2026 | Words |
The meaning of life is that it ends … Franz Kafka How do we live when life offers no clear script, and we still crave meaning? We can analyze, brood, knead the dough, and hope for loaves and fishes. We can ignore life’s existential angst and float in The...
by Think In The Morning | Apr 14, 2026 | Words |
Know thyself … inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at DelphiBe yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde That old admonition “don’t force a square peg into a round hole” is a quiet philosophy of alignment. It asks a simple but difficult question: what...
by Think In The Morning | Mar 28, 2026 | Words |
This morning I noticed my dragon alebrije, Hugo, named after a friend who worked at Lucy’s Cucu Cabana in Puerto Vallarta for several years. The shop is gone and so is Hugo but the dragon lives in my house as a protector of great memories that might otherwise escape...
by Think In The Morning | Mar 25, 2026 | Words |
Mistah Kurtz—he dead (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness) The remark “excuse me for not dying”, which Leonard Cohen attributes to his Zen teacher Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, is one of those deceptively simple Zen statements that opens up the whole question of life,...
by Think In The Morning | Mar 15, 2026 | Words |
The force that through the green fuse drives the flowerThe force that through the green fuse drives the flowerDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of treesIs my destroyer.And I am dumb to tell the crooked roseMy youth is bent by the same wintry fever.The force...
