We use the word “love” to mean so many things. We “make love;” we love ideas; we love inanimate things. I believe love is a lot simpler than that. The first time an animal stayed with its eggs and fed, protected and nurtured its off spring, love came into existence. At first living things simply …
Monthly Archives: July 2020
When Man Created God
Perhaps a million years ago, as homo sapiens evolved from earlier hominids, our brains were more complex than those of our predecessors, and we developed unique capabilities: drawing, speaking, and the ability to think abstractly. Prior to that, I believe, like all other animals, we simply adapted to our environments and tried to survive and …
My Frame of Reference
I was born about a year after the end of World War II in a small suburb of New York City. My father had served in the Pacific and returned a year before I was born. My mother was a housewife and I had one older brother. My first house was a row house and …
The Big Picture
I live on a planet orbiting a star we call “the Sun.” Our star is one star in a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars. Our galaxy is one of a hundred billion galaxies in what we call “the Universe.” I’m not sure if there is only one universe or multiple universes. Our universe …
Why I’m Doing This
We are all born to a mother and father, in a place, and at a time we did not pick. From that day, on, depending upon who are our parents, where we live, and when, our beliefs are shaped by those around us. Each of us inhabits a body that is the center of our …