Tag: death

The Trouble with Limits

Modern persons have a problem with limits, three in fact. They want every good thing to be unlimitedly available for their desires, and scarcity...

Death and Life in the Country

Hidden Springs Lane. There is something especially sad about opening up a hive full of dead bees. Several weeks ago I wrote about my...

Where Will You Die?

Hidden Spring Lane. “I plan on dying here.” The words came quite unbidden and surprised me. We were in the process of building a...

You Have Thought Up the Wrong World

In the spring of 1994 my grandmother chose to go off dialysis. Four days later, she was dead. I still remember my parents waking...

Harry Potter and Running from Death

Our hero, Harry, demonstrates an attitude towards death that very few of us actually hold.

Where Are All the Grownups?

Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?

The Advantages of Dying Young

The listlessness of modern death is that you might not even get a chance to show courage before you forget who you are.

Swine Flu’s Real Exposure

Claremont, CA.  The most haunting, awful scenes in Thucydides’s history of the Pelopponesian war are those describing the Athenian plague. The plague emerged in the...