What is to be done? Or is anything to be done? This is the dilemma of an old retired guy, tearing out what's left of his hair, after the usual bout of morning exercise and morning news. Surely something must be done. Too much is going wrong to ignore. So, let's take action. And what does action look like? Hard to say. Which is why at times like this, with the San Francisco sky in its summer gray, the only thing is to repair to the greenhouse. It is wonderful there. A glassed in world where Read more [...]

I woke up from a recent nightmare…to find myself back in the other one. Let me explain.  The dream was curiously simple and devoid of detail. Some oppressive pain was building within me. Like a pressure cooker it was mounting, my distress growing. Yet it was an emotional pain, a mixture of dread and fear and general heartbreak. Nonspecific. No cause and no object. But in the nightmare, it seemed to grow in magnitude and intensity until I was almost obliterated. That's it. And it's particularly Read more [...]