Opinion
The Newsletter
This time of year, every trip to the mailbox results in a handful of holiday cards. I mostly like holiday cards.
How Are You?
By in large we are mostly oblivious to what is coming forth from our vocals. It is one of the complexities of being human that our communication is, well, complicated and often leads to misunderstanding.
In this corner…
I am not going to chew anyone's ear off too much this time. Instead I am going to just share my New Year's Resolution and keep it brief.
The Challenges of Life
For starters, we begin with so many things given to us at birth, and we are stuck with these, graced with these, challenged with these for life.We have only one body – one size, one gender, one brain, one set of sensory organs, one genetic makeup of personality ingredients, one birth time in history, one birthplace and birth culture, and typically one set of parents.Just think about it. I was born after penicillin was available, before television, in the U.S., to loving parents who were teachers.
The Year in Review
Most of the year, Beyond Reason steadies its gaze on the present. The here, the now, the au courant.
In Defense of Fruit Cake
There is so much wrapped up in Christmas (pun intended). All the traditions, getting together with family, avoiding getting with certain family, spirituality, getting lots of stuff, giving lots of stuff, returning or regifting stuff, travelling, staying at home and refusing to budge, the list goes on and on.
It is almost over
The holidays are almost over. If you are like me, you include October's Halloween under the umbrella of the holiday season.
'Tis the Season
There’s something in the air this time of year. The energy, the cheer, the spirit.