IT IS TIME TO SAY ENOUGH The way I remember my friend Esther Broner telling us the story, she was on a pilgrimage to Mount Sinai Spinning Among Fields One happy summer day, years ago now, I went blueberry picking with my eleven year old grandson. He was all On Planetary AI Conversations with my daughter Lorien this summer led me to my latest flight into the stratosphere in an Impakter.com column: Animals at the Cottage: Whole Worlds We Could Never Dream of When I looked out of my bedroom window to see what was making that strange noise both the yard and Homo Puppy I have always assumed that human evolution was brutal, a matter of the survival of the fittest, with only the The River Flowing in My Heart I never had a visitor to my river cabin who left the same person who arrived. Whatever their delight - Chat GPT and Me So, with all this fuss about Artificial Intelligence, I went to the horse's mouth. ChatGPT, it turns out, lurks in Chattering and Mattering After a long, dry stretch in a particularly reserved (okay, anally retentive) academic department where I felt that my humanity Unaffordable Housing in America It isn't that I have anything personal against the young couple whose parents erected a huge house for them right Moral Harm and the Comfort of Accountability Since 2016, those of us who love justice and fairness have been floundering in a gloom-inducing mire of injustice and Are We Still Evolving? I have always assumed that we human beings have evolved as far as we can go, that our neo-cortexes are GREEN SWANS ALL OF THE WAY Like a lot of my friends, I read newspapers and magazines and listen to TV a lot, and I find BEGINNER’S MIND I belong to a little group of friends who meet every month to check in with each other’s lives and EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHIZING What is going on in that "Socrates Cafe© "on the second floor of the library every third Sunday afternoon? Since Urban Farming Here's a little bit of light in our darkness, with wishes for tranquility at Holiday time for all of my Local Solutions to Hunger When we look at the new Congress we see little possibility of meaningful legislation, given the very thin margin between Midterm Worries I am usually positive and forward-looking about the political scene in America; even in the worst of the Trump years LET’S ALL BE INTELLECTUALS! Review of Ward Farnsworth, The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook. Boston: Godine, 2021 It is not very popular to be GOING LIGHTLY, with e.e. cummings In this world full of ponderous pundits and people who take everything far too seriously, have you noticed how relieved Biden’s Successes and Doomerist Assessments Here's Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer celebrating one of the many pieces of Democratic Party legislation that have gone through 1 2 3 … 8 Next »
