Fran and I recently attended a Graduate Psychology Reunion at Princeton. Besides having an enjoyable time at the reunion, the event stimulated re-thinking of my experience there nearly a half-century ago. (more…)
April 10, 2013
March 29, 2013
Good Friday arrest in the service of a peaceful world
For several years I have joined members of the Brandywine Peace Community at Good Friday demonstrations outside the Lockheed Martin facility in King of Prussia, PA. Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest war profiteer and nuclear weapons manufacturer. (more…)
January 21, 2013
Honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King with civil disobedience
I was arrested today at the King of Prussia facility of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest war profiteer and nuclear weapons manufacturer. Today is the holiday when we particularly honor the birth and life of Martin Luther King. How better to do this than to act in accord with his own life and teachings? (more…)
January 2, 2013
Andrea del Sarto (Called “The Faultless Painter”) and Paul’s three-legged stool.
Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
I reread this poem on New Year’s Day 2013. I believe that I had not read it fully since high school, and it is amazing how different it feels to read it in my late 60’s compared to reading it as a teenager. (more…)
December 31, 2012
My Memorial for my Mother (died at age 102), given 12/29/12
I’d like to say some things about my Mom’s full life; others will likely say things more recent about her (recent, for my Mom’s life, is all relative. That might be things from grandchildren or great-grandchildren that cover only the past few decades or so). (more…)
November 6, 2012
“This election is bogus”
This morning I stood outside the polls along with the candidates’ representatives, holding my sign “I will not participate in a presidential election run by mega-corporations and wealthy individuals.” Instead, for the Presidential election, I did a write-in stating “This election is bogus.” This is about a particular election and not about the electoral concept. I did vote at the local level.
October 4, 2012
Calling my Clearness Committee for a “peaceful uprising”
I request a Clearness Committee meeting to consider the following:
I believe we have an entrenched oligarchy, and I support a peaceful uprising to replace it. We have lost our government, which is no longer “of the people, by the people, for the people.” (more…)
September 18, 2012
Energy, infrastructure, and the unholy god of profit over all.
We’re back from Friends Center and a training session for peacekeepers/marshals for the Shale Gas Outrage non-violent rally and march this Thursday. Getting there and back served as an illustration of how our energy system and transportation system (so closely interlocked) have entered a suicidal spiral. It was raining, and at Villanova (one of the richest (more…)
August 7, 2012
Was “America” attacked on 9/11?
We hear that this country was attacked on 9/11. Correction, this country was never seriously attacked. Bin Laden intentionally (and brilliantly, if we can credit his intelligence and not his morals) attacked a particularly diseased segment of this country (more…)
August 6, 2012
Sex and Discipline
No, I don’t mean “discipline” during sex. I’m referring to discipline regarding sexual activity, comparable to how we may seek to discipline ourselves in regard to our eating and sleeping behaviors. It may seem strange/incongruous even to consider sexuality in terms of (more…)