I've pasted below, verbatim, an essay I posted in this space on 9 June 2009. The current essay bears the same title as the one from way back when. First, though, consistent with my recent strategy, I've added a few…

I contributed a chapter, upon request, to a book titled, How to Save Humanity. My chapter was developed from my previous writing in this space. The book can be viewed and downloaded free by clicking here (but not by clicking…

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the…

by E. Farber Let me start by saying that I'm not writing this essay for the purpose of publicly flagellating myself, nor am I appealing for sympathy. My purpose is to communicate the degree to which I have internalized the…

Ivey Cone created a documentary film dedicated to the seventh stage of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief. I wrote about the seventh stage early October 2015. The film relies upon the disparate perspectives of ten people with respect to…

Herman Hesse opens his 1919 novel Demian with the following few lines. I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so difficult? And then, about three-quarters of…

by Reese Jones There is the methane monster; a permafrost timebomb in the making. But perhaps to trump that, there's now the ominous spectre of global dimming. What is global dimming? Global dimming is the "darkening" of the atmosphere by…