Granting Is-Ness —

The True Meaning of the Word — The word “diet” (from Greek diaita “course of life”) needs to reclaim its original sense of being what a person or animal (or plant, I guess) eats and drinks to sustain life, his/her/its daily fare in other words. Not so these days, for the word has instead shouldered the meaning…

Faking Nearsightedness — There were twenty-eight children in my third-grade class, roughly half of them boys and the smoother half, obviously, girls. No cross-genders in rural Sweden at that time. All but two of those twenty-eight, well, twenty-seven not counting me, were taller than I was. Only two of the boys, Per and…

Large and Small —

True Stillness —

A Jhana Factor —

Wit’s End — Click here to read this novel from the beginning. Wit’s End Cecil Beaton called me at work in the early afternoon of December 18, 1958. Harriet, he informed me, wanted me to come see her in New York. “For more than ten minutes, this time?” I asked. “I don’t know,”…

True Definition —

Background — In June of 1974 I was sent from the ship Apollo to Saint Hill in the UK on what was known as a Garrison Mission — a long-term assignment, usually lasting months, sometimes even years. The task was temporarily to assume the role of Commanding Officer for the United Kingdom…