The Lost Half Hour

“Time as a stuff can be wasted,” Carl Sandburg reminded us in The People, Yes, as if most of us didn’t have some direct experience of just such a lesson. But the time… Read More →

Three Keys and Two Fools-One of Who Was Me.

One spring evening, as people were out strolling, they saw Mullah Nasruddin on his hands and knees under a lamppost searching frantically for something or other. “I’ve lost my keys” replied Mullah, when… Read More →

The Onion Seller, The Basket Maker and an Ambassador of Kindness

A few days ago, after a visit to Ernest Thompson Seton’s Santa Fe homestead, now in the wonderful hands and hearts of The Academy for the Love of Learning(www.aloveoflearning.org/ I found myself browsing… Read More →

Reading Unplugged

Thank you cartoonist  Shannon Wheeler for generous permission to reproduce this image which appears on this month’s issue of Funny Times.  It struck a chord.  As I write I’m looking at a big… Read More →

Welcome to the Campfire

Welcome! I  hope you’ll find something here to warm your imagination and spirit, and spark some thoughts. What I  really hope is that you’ll ‘add a log to the fire,’ by way of… Read More →

Uncle Remus and Wayne Dyer Agree

I’m pretty sure that this will be the first time that Wayne Dyer, the motivational speaker, and Uncle Remus will ever have been mentioned in the same sentence. In his latest book, Wishes… Read More →

Assumptions and Lost Possibilities- The Jack Story

I just remembered a story my father related to me on more than one occasion. I’ve always though of it as Dad’s Jack Story.  A little research today quickly reveals the lineage, or… Read More →

Three Stories- Nine Questions

There are times that I turn to certain stories almost as talismans that contain much needed guidance, and that help me keep my bearing.  This is one of those times and so I… Read More →

Music of the Spheres from Hopi to the Middle East

Listen!  Do you hear it? Nasruddin, the holy fool of so many Middle-Eastern stories is playing his Kemenche again. One day Nasruddin’s wife entered the house to find him playing the ancient instrument,… Read More →

New Years Resolutions? Not So Fast! Try Some Karrtsiluni First.

It’s time to make some New Years resolutions.  Or is it? Maybe it will be more productive to sit together in the dark and gloom for awhile.  Consider the practice of karrtsiluni.  Here’s  Majuak_an… Read More →