My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

From my ongoing “Vanitas” series, these two skeletons seem to capture moments of life—and death—in a quiet yet playful way. Painted in my st...

 “The more you want, the more you lack.” Five decades after hearing the sentence in my freshman college philosophy class, the words have sta...

Life cannot be held, only experienced. To try and hold it is when we realize it is but a dream. When we believe we are in possession of...

    Summer's Fare August 11, 2013   Endlessly Changing  August 19, 2012 A Leap Of Faith Augus...

--> My first blog post was seven years ago . . . on October 7. Since then, I have posted 384 times, almost every week without fai...

The Zone June 10, 2012 Deep Into Love June 26, 2011 People Of Color June 13, 201 ...

A bedouin on his camel. at the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry ...

At the temple of Karnak, Luxor, Egypt Today’s blog is number 347. That is about 6 ½ years of writing. In the beginning, I wrote to brin...

Path into the Himalaya mountains. “The future will take care of itself.” This became my motto while traveling, and even now that I tra...

My dear daughter Naomi , who I regard as an elevated teacher, even now that she has abandoned the physical form, said, “Everything is import...

Do you ever ponder infinity, or do you just think, why bother, it is impossible to comprehend. Human beings like to measure. They create uni...

“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.” Seneca , (5 BC - 65 AD) Roman dramatist, philos...

During my years of University study I took a course in philosophy, and I remember a day in class when the professor became quite animated du...

Some people believe in God and others do not, and those in between are called agnostics. It is understandable that there is great difficulty...

 A human being is woven of many threads. Each thread is given at birth and has come from afar, through generations, to arrive in the special...

Consciousness is a gift given to each human. We could never plan something so complex, nor, given our limitations, would we want to try. Loo...

"Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that...

“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.” Leonard C...