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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

The Happiness Hypothesis

March 6, 2008

A New Earth ~ Week 1

It is customary when writing on spiritual matters to tell stories — parables or koans — to help illuminate the unenlightened. Tolle does this, and these parts of the book, I like. Yesterday I happened across this in an old Readers Digest (March 2006) and it expresses, on so many levels, the difficulties I have… Continue reading

A New Earth

A New Earth, Books, Eckhart Tolle, Jonathan Haidt, New Age, Oprah, psychology, skepticism, spirituality, The Happiness Hypothesis
March 3, 2008

A New Earth, The Happiness Hypothesis, Oprah, and me

Well, although I’m still not sure why I’m doing this (possibly just to set myself a task) I’ve decided on an approach. I have finished The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt; and quickly read A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle. Quickly, because I’ll be… Continue reading

A New Earth

A New Earth, Books, Eckhart Tolle, Jonathan Haidt, New Age, Oprah, psychology, skepticism, spirituality, The Happiness Hypothesis
February 26, 2008

Quiet

Photo by Cousin Sue Pinkerton Yes, as a few of you have noticed, I have been quiet lately. I’m not writing — but I am reading. I’m reading: Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other… Continue reading

Thinking

Ape Genius, Books, Nova, The Happiness Hypothesis, Warped Passages

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

The Happiness Hypothesis

A New Earth ~ Week 1

A New Earth, The Happiness Hypothesis, Oprah, and me

Quiet