August 14th My mom reminded me yesterday that it was the 48th anniversary of my baptism. And again she told the story that everyone already heard many times — that I was actually baptized twice. Once in the hospital after I was born, there was a health scare and the…

August 13th I have non, creativity in summer that is. I am physically active, I am on my bike all the time, I walk a lot, I work in the garden, and I am kayaking as often as time allows. I read a lot (again) — a book or two…

August 12th The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Wikipedia The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is a 1976 book by the Princeton psychologist…en.wikipedia.org Why did no one tell me that before? Why wasn’t this information provided to me in school or college? Why isn’t this information a piece of more common knowledge? Why do mainstream psychologists and biologists and anthropologists ignore this subject and/or actually try very hard to diminish the…

August 11th For a long while, I thought Jackson Pollock (who died on this day 66 years ago) was an embodiment of all that was wrong with modern art. The sheer incomprehensiveness, an inside joke, a secret club with esoteric knowledge needed to even have any idea about it, and…

August 10th Something different happened to me today, something unusual in a way that made me want to write about it. And it is actually about writing per se. You see, I wrote a post for this blog today that was in parts about Jerry Garcia and the deadheads cult…

August 8th A small incident happened to me last Saturday. In the big picture, a very insignificant incident, but very symptomatic for the Catholic Church as an organization and its approach to other people. The list of the sins of the Catholic Church is long and tragic and criminal and…

August 7th I guess I never paid close attention to it, or rather had no interest in paying close attention to it. But today, while kayaking in my local reservoir the sun was shining at the just right angle and strength, and no wind was disturbing the surface of the…

August 6th An excellent idea! For the last several years, the city where I live (Bialystok), instead of maintaining lawns around the city, started to plant wildflowers there. It is a lot more economical (no mowing, no fuel used, no fumes) and ecological (no need to water it to maintain…

August 5th … it's only a job, and you seem to be the only one who cares, and why care if no one else cares about it”. A coworker said it to me this morning after I let a long sigh (and I might have cursed a little under my…