I LOVE Halloween. This coming weekend is one of my favorites of the year, second only to, perhaps, Christmas. Clearly, I don’t make these decisions based on the weather (where did those 60s go?) but rather on some experience that comes with the holidays themselves. I’m not badmouthing Christmas. In all honesty, I love December more than any other month, and it even comes with … Continue reading Halloween: Christmas for partygoers?

To start, I would like to relate a little anecdote of mine that I hope will illuminate my thoughts here.  Recently I was wandering through the Arboretum, on a particularly windy day, when I realized, for whatever reason, that I was hardly using my sense of smell. I was surrounded by things to be sensed, but wasn’t bothering to do so. Naturally I immediately began … Continue reading The subversion of sense

There are many actions in human nature that are simply a knee jerk response to stimulus. Sometimes I feel like it could be so easy to go through the day on autopilot; eating when I was hungry, sleeping when I was sleepy or even just dealing with the simple problems at hand. And yet, I always find that such mental passivity is impossible. There are … Continue reading The sound of reflections