Keep Filling up the Leaky Bucket

Keep filling up the leaky bucket, but ignore the leaks. Those damn Republicans are trying to destroy the public school system. Damn them. Before you know it, they will go after the precious military industrial complex and the poor Washington Lobbyists. Both sides are...

Rush’s Tom Sawyer offers valuable philosophy lesson

Rush’s Tom Sawyer offers a valuable philosophy lesson. I love Rush and I recognized and appreciated Neil Peart’s intellectual and curious song lyrics. The following lyrics offer a great lesson in Philosophy and debate: He knows changes aren’t permanent/ But change is/...

Rush’s hemispheres provides insightful lesson

Rush’s Hemispheres contains a very important lesson. A few weeks ago, I introduced mythological/archetypal critical perspectives and there was an essay discussing Apollonian vs. Dionysian philosophy, so I couldn’t resist indulging in playing Hemispheres by Rush...

Tough Love

Tough Love in the Heart and Gut Yesterday, I grabbed my mail and as I was scrolling through, I found a health report stating a new shocking discovery that heart problems begin in the gut. That makes sense if you take Yoga because a weekly class is designated for...

Toastmasters Revive the lost art of communication. Throughout the past five years or so, I have noticed that many times I have been interrupted by the other person, and I am sure I have been guilty of the same thing once or a hundred times. That made me think about...

The Color of Common Sense

There is a Korean name for the concept, “water up, fire down” that I forget how to spell and annunciate, but it refers to a healthy state for the body when the body has a cool head and warm heart, hands, abdomen, and feet. The Dahnjan, the second chakra that is...
James Pesutich