A Motorcycle Moment
By Larry Feinstein Shane Feinstein I had been laboring over a letter to my grandson, Shane, who turned seven Dec. 13. I am flying to see my family in Hoboken, New Jersey this month and I thought it...
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“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts” — Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC-17 AD Recently, I took my kayak whale hunting. I know I’ve written about my motorcycle experiences pretty...
View ArticleHouse of Words
By Larry Feinstein “Now is the time to examine the mindset of our present generation and to reflect on the way of life that it may bring about in the future”— Dalai Lama We are defined by the words we...
View ArticleHey, Charlie Darwin
By Larry Feinstein Photograph of Charles Darwin in 1867 by Julia Margaret Cameron. “Whilst Man, however well-behaved, at best is but a monkey shaved!” ― Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species Where...
View ArticleThe Ride Plus One
By Larry Feinstein “I have chosen to go miles out of my comfort zone, habit monger that I am, and take Frost’s less traveled road. Every day will be completely different than the day before. Accepting...
View ArticleThe Dance With Time
By Larry Feinstein Kaua‘i’s North Shore, seen from Kilohana Lookout in Koke‘e. This has to do with a language, sometimes spoken between mind and body, and we are often the last to find out, especially...
View ArticleDisinformation: Inventing Convenient Truths
By Larry Feinstein Graffiti on a wall in San Antonio, Texas. Photo courtesy of Stella Cooks/Conspicuous Blankness When do you think the first lie was insinuated from one, hairy upright person to...
View ArticleRain Man Lives
By Larry Feinstein If what I am about to tell you is not true, I will smack myself really hard on either of my temples, depending upon which hand is free. We can really expose our stuff when the right...
View ArticleStarry Night
Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh By Larry Feinstein A couple of months ago, I drove home, and when I got out of the car, I stared at the sky for a few minutes. It was a clear Kaua‘i night, and the...
View ArticleRiding and Thinking
By Larry Feinstein Kismet, a robot with rudimentary social skills, at MIT Museum in 2006. Photo by Polimerek, with permission of the museum I am reminded why I came up with the name for my blog, Mind...
View ArticleHindsight and the Age Prism
By Larry Feinstein My mind has been preoccupied for months now. I have been unable to find the words, a vocabulary that mirrors where I find myself. It has to do with age and the sense of a life rhythm...
View ArticleHouse of Words
By Larry Feinstein “Now is the time to examine the mindset of our present generation and to reflect on the way of life that it may bring about in the future”— Dalai Lama We are defined by the words we...
View ArticleHey, Charlie Darwin
By Larry Feinstein Photograph of Charles Darwin in 1867 by Julia Margaret Cameron. “Whilst Man, however well-behaved, at best is but a monkey shaved!” ― Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species Where...
View ArticleThe Ride Plus One
By Larry Feinstein “I have chosen to go miles out of my comfort zone, habit monger that I am, and take Frost’s less traveled road. Every day will be completely different than the day before. Accepting...
View ArticleThe Dance With Time
By Larry Feinstein Kaua‘i’s North Shore, seen from Kilohana Lookout in Koke‘e. This has to do with a language, sometimes spoken between mind and body, and we are often the last to find out, especially...
View ArticleDisinformation: Inventing Convenient Truths
By Larry Feinstein Graffiti on a wall in San Antonio, Texas. Photo courtesy of Stella Cooks/Conspicuous Blankness When do you think the first lie was insinuated from one, hairy upright person to...
View ArticleRain Man Lives
By Larry Feinstein If what I am about to tell you is not true, I will smack myself really hard on either of my temples, depending upon which hand is free. We can really expose our stuff when the right...
View ArticleStarry Night
Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh By Larry Feinstein A couple of months ago, I drove home, and when I got out of the car, I stared at the sky for a few minutes. It was a clear Kaua‘i night, and the...
View ArticleAnthony and Ida
By Larry Feisntein The path through the 88 shrines at Lawa‘i International Center. Photo by Sue Boynton I woke up this morning at precisely 5 a.m., and I know this for a fact because Alexa set the...
View ArticleJackie II
By Larry Feinstein I am sitting at the usual, staged setting for writing, always the same. My desk is triangular shaped and it wedges perfectly into its corner of the room. When my eyes rise above the...
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