The day is filled with moments, and every moment a ritual. We need only become conscious of its beginning, its middle and its end to work a minor miracle. We sleepwalk most of our daily routines, but if someone gives us a piece of chocolate, we wake up and notice.Continue Reading

Question: when do my party-throwing friends in the mountains sound like the brightest of NASA’s space engineers? When they say, “the only thing we can’t control is the weather.” The weather reflects the most abstract of qualia, for it is filled with non-euclidean and non-newtonian forces, waiting to be tapped.Continue Reading

When an idea attracts us we move toward it. That movement isritual. Imagine the early idea that some tribesmen came up with, that they could influence the weather with a gesture. A silly idea, perhaps, but it seemed to work, so they did it again, and over the generations the ritualContinue Reading