Not old enough to buy a drink – that would be illegal – so the first drinks are always gifts of some sort. The gift of beer creates a bond, a feeling of connection, or community, between the young people. Since teenagers usually have little or no money, they share.Continue Reading
All beings ritual, and typically, if rituals “work,” they turn into routines, routines turn into traditions, and our traditions, of course, become familiar and comfortable. So it comes to pass that we forget about the qualia and pay attention to the matter. Matter is measurable, and alas, it has becomeContinue Reading
I’ve noticed something very interesting about our four(!) cats. As they have grown older, the killer instinct, the anticipatory twitching, crouching, claw-flexing, and teeth chattering bloodthirstiness is subsiding. They seem to have become more interested in pestering each other than in killing innocent little yard creatures. It is as ifContinue Reading