I drive to work every day along the same route. It often happens that I suddenly have the feeling I don’t know where I am. Then, looking around, I realize I am exactly where I am supposed to be. What has happened? I have missed a familiar landmark. I haveContinue Reading

I am always struck by how often advertisements use wonderful, qualiadelic ideas to sell their products. One commercial that readily comes to mind is probably called “pay it forward.” Basically, one person helps another, then that person helps another, and so on throughout the morning. It is just a seriesContinue Reading

Landscapes are competitive, violent places. Ecosystems are made up of many landscapes together, making something greater than its parts. As part of an ecosystem, landscapes endure cooperatively and balanced, like the molecules in a snowflake, held together by a hexagon. An ecosystem is qualia in its fullest, innermost sense, holdingContinue Reading