In the years I worked in the technical end of medical records, there were many times that systems did not work as expected. Getting systems to resume functioning as expected was the priority, but not the only priority. Additionally, what was known as an RCA (root cause analysis) would often have to occur. This was …
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking outside my window at hummingbirds buzzing around late summer flowers, but also noticing the wilting of the sunflowers nearby. I knew the autumnal equinox was coming, signaling a change from a predominance of sunlight to a predominance of darkness. This is never a favorite time of year …
When my partner of 32 years, Kieth Kiehl, died at the end of 2012, everything I had known about the world seemed to change. Up to that point, I had not spent much time considering what reality existed outside the story of my life. I believed that there was more to the world than I …
Pretty much every resident of the United States is familiar with the How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Many children may only know the the live action movie. Many more people may know the 1960s cartoon narrated by Boris Karloff. Both, however, came from a book published by the amazing Dr. Seuss, on October 12, 1957. …
My name is Greg and I am a song snob. As far back as high school I remember a strong distaste for simplistic, repetitive, and saccharine songs of that time. I recall a real distaste when I was in High School for Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Silly Love Songs.” I learned many years later that …
I am not a big TV watcher, but a number of years back Kieth and I would always watch HBO’s True Blood over dinner on Sunday evenings. Over the course of a few episodes, a character named Lafayette begins a relationship with someone who was killed shortly thereafter. A short while later, his spirit comes …
Here in 2020, I feel like there are more of us than usual feeling a certain amount of emotional pain due to all of the separation we face. For some time now, this season has been a heavy time for me. I’ve mentioned in entries past that my partner of 32 years passed away in …
Few, if any, of us can claim to create something from start to finish completely on our own. Even if you bake a pie from scratch, it is unlikely that you grew the wheat, fruit and sugar cane used. Rather, you are artfully combining existing ingredients, with process, timing, and energy to perform a kind …
In recent weeks in this blog I’ve talked about existence as Reality (the level of energy) vs. Maya (the illusion of separateness via the senses) vs. Story (the exclusively human level of attempted explanation). Story is my term for our interpretation of Maya from an anthropocentric viewpoint. Given our need for interpretation, it would seem …
A couple of weeks back, I posted about the Hindu concept of Maya. To recap my limited understanding of it, Maya states that we live in an illusion. My thought for an illustration of this involves looking at a tree. When you look at a tree, you don’t experience the actual tree…you experience the light …