While there is still time

“James Averill, a major proponent of social constructivism, describes a behavior pattern, called “being a wild pig”, that is quite unusual ...

From 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' [1884] , Mark Twain "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, ...

"Research on the physical results of thinking has shown that just using the brain actually increases the number of dendritic branches t...

come quickly come run run with me now jump shout(laugh dance cry sing)for it's Spring -irrevocably; and in earth sky trees :every where ...

Ending of the last chapter of "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche", by Haruki Murakami "In order tha...

Lucy to Charlie Brown on the baseball field: "I am sorry I missed that easy fly ball, Captain. I suddenly remembered all the ones I h...

"How do you remember your own name? Is it possible ever to forget it? The memory trace, or engram, "feels" like it is stored ...

"We can take pleasure in such concise, elegant expressions as Maxwell's formulae for electromagnetism. But we can never know wheth...

Walkabout refer to a rite of passage where Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for ...

The Badjos are a tribe of constantly wandering people who live on small boats called leppas in the Indian Ocean. They are very difficult to ...

Aimless Love This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped...

"The Chinese unicorn is a sacred animal of portent. It ranks along with the dragon, the phoenix, and the tortoise as one of the Four Au...

"....The myth of the "happy savage" is based on the observation that when free of external threats, preliterate people often...

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labour in the week...

"...Unfortunately, what he calls the "inexorable technocreep" of contemporary culture threatens such meaningful connection. P...