QotD: Hafez on Fear

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
--Hafez, Persian poet

Farmlands is the name of a section of whitewater on the White Salmon

I am just back from a lovely day on the river, though I was somewhat psychological about it. We paddled "the Farmlands" a class IV section…
QotD: Save the Earth OR ELSE

A day will come in your lifetime when the Earth, your mother, will beg you, with tears running, to save her. Ho, if you fail to help her, you…
QotD: De Becker on American Violence

"While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten…
QotD: Your Path

Your confusion is not pathology, it is path. It has something to show you that clarity could never reveal. The nature of chaos is wisdom, but you…
Imagine the Stress

I read this morning about a doctor who went mad and shot people in a hospital. As a doctor myself, I know that docs have terrible stresses trying to…
QotD: Reality

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as…