true enough: we cannot be happy in the future,
we can only be happy now, in the present

the same is true for unhappy

go figure

not distinguishing pain from suffering is itself suffering

the experience of free will is neither proof of nor
an explanation for it

to be utterly without hope is also to be utterly without despair

past and future exist only in the conversations we have about them

each moment is as it is;
to say that it “should” be some other way
only weighs down the one who says “should”

Earlier I wrote — “the peace that passeth understanding can’t be understood.”
What’s worse, it can’t be experienced.
Then what, we may ask, is it good for?
And, of course, the answer is — it’s good for Nothing.

the one free extension is almost done,
taxes are due in three more days,
I have no IRS approved excuse for delaying any longer;
I could do them now,
but there’s still three days

instead I write thes lines;
absent a true emergency
they’ll be filed on time,
they always are

I used to worry and call myself a procrastinator,
now I worry not and just call me me

gratitude arises along with the preference for what is

what turns you on is what turns you on . . . and sometimes it surprises you

in America one speaks not of the attendant sorrows of aging lest one be thought old

a critical distinction in living an examined life: your experience and the explanation of your experience

what once was unimaginable
has this day come to pass –
sixty-five

you discover your own path at the end, if there is one

when does the past become the present and the present, the future?