Nice reflection. There are good, helpful, virtuous ways to be significant, but there are also bad, destructive ones. Too often…
Bart: I too am 68 and find I reflect more often than my earlier years about such matters. Having survived…
For me, this is a very timely and important post. Thank you!
I rather like Lion King metaphysics: after death actually becoming one of those stars to forever guide the living …
An excellent post--thanks. This sort of contemplation is something I wish all humans had in their daily thoughts.
Just to note a scribal slip when referencing that last quote, it should be to Ecclesiastes 9 1 rather than…
I don’t know if “justice” is the right lens to think about the motives of an imperial occupying force, but…
That was a rich meditation. While I look forward to your academic and scholarly posts, this was a sweet and…
Remember that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return! Stardust Somehow living for a while.
“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation…