Ghulf Genes

I wouldn’t have dreamt it few years ago, but these days my fluency in computers is almost gone. Did I ever speak that language? There was ...

Just saw a crow land on our birdfeeder; it was way too big for it, therefore awkward, and quite unable to get a seed from the evenly placed ...

An article with illustration in the NY Times today once more brought to mind that there is an unfinished list in my mind or things I’ll nev...

Is life energy? It’s reasonable to think so. After all, all the motion that we see here on earth or up in the sky is produced by energy—eith...

One reason why societies decline—and are then restored to life by revolutions—is lawless complexity. No. I’m not against complexity. But the...

Last night our overhead lamps in the house blinked out for a second or two and then came back on. This repeated with random pauses over ten ...

It is odd to say this but true: Through most of life when we are most active physically we least notice that we’re animals; in old age our p...

We’re usually only interested in weather immediately over us—unless we’re travelling today to another location. If so, and we’re driving and...

In my last post I focused on Yves Paret, who died on the day of his wife’s, Madeleine’s, funeral. Madeleine was buried; Yves was cremated. S...

Michelle’s Father-in-law, Yves Paret, only waited until his wife was buried; then he too died to join her in that world beyond. Both had bee...

  Speaking of old age and its ultimate consequences, we learned four or five days ago that Madelein Paret—Thierry’s mother and hence grandmo...

It seems to me that deeply layered as it has become over time, materialism is one of the reasons that long life—and the longer the better—an...

In December comes the task of writing the Christmas letter; it’s meant to help those people who are not in frequent touch keep track of our ...

Through a glass dabble-blurred by raindrops and the faint presence of the summer screen I see the vague dark roof randomly decorated by wet...

By a strange coincidence, Brigitte and I had a discussion yesterday morning about viruses. The context was reading the phrase “going viral”...