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Recently I watched two interviews with climate scientists discussing the heat waves that have stunned Europe this summer, as well as other parts of the world. Both said, in effect, “we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.” These events are not anomalies, they said, but only an introduction to new weather norms that will only get worse, much worse.

It was obvious that both s...


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Cher as Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck (1987)

In an early scene of Moonstruck (one of my favorite movies), Loretta (played by Cher) puts her fiancé on a plane to Sicily to visit his dying mother. As Loretta stands watching the departing plane, an el...


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From “Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, 16th c.

In my last post, I said that we are in a time of “do it yourself religion.” We can’t anymore rely on traditional institutional religion for our spiritual wellbeing, so we must take care of it ourselves. There are a couple of obstacles to that happening. One which I mentioned last time, is that it takes time and ...


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People today have become increasingly accepting of, and proactive about, taking care of themselves. Not like pioneer folks on the frontier. Rather, they are recognizing that many things previous generations assumed would take care of themselves, or were beyond their control, won’t or aren’t.

Career and personal finance, physical and mental health are areas of l...


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“San Andreas Fault Has Gone Ominously Quiet” warned a recent headline in the Los Angeles Times. “Ominously” quiet? Shouldn’t quiet fault lines be a good thing? Not always, because faults need to move a little from time-to-time, otherwise they move a lot, all at once, and usually with disastrous consequences.

We like to think we stand on terra firma...


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