Echoes in Absence: the Unseen Threads of Commitment

When you pledge to attend (anything), it seems like a very simple act, but spider-like you create an invisible thread that binds you, the promisor, with the promisee, in a dance of expectation and disappointment. The impact of breaking this thread is tangible. This happened today. The expectation of a much-anticipated meeting at the start […]

Dog Attack Near Death Experience

Part 1: Einstein’s paper on special relativity, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” was published in 1905, and it included the theory that time IS NOT a constant flowing stream but a kind of web that can expand and contract relative to the moment. In theory, we all move in our own time. But how […]