Author Archives: Trish and Rob
Ferris Wheel in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kmNxzMe8iQ&feature=player_embedded#at=57 Some Sunday musings. This very odd video looks like a ferris wheel in the sky. It appeared on the news in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Why is it that the news in many other countries reports on stuff like … Continue reading
Amazing Word Game
Here is a truly amazing word game, especially the last part, courtesy of Nancy McMoneagle. *** Did you know that, the words “race car” spelled backwards still spells “race car”? And that “eat” is the only word that, if you take … Continue reading
Trickster Economics
On Friday afternoon, August 5, the coveted AAA credit rating the U.S. has enjoyed since 1917 was downgraded by Standard and Poor’s to AA+. This one seems to have the trickster’s footprints all over it. It’s like Smeagol on hallucinogenics … Continue reading
Beloved Infidel – the F. Scott Fitzgerald Saga
Rob was teaching another six-week meditation course in a Taekwondo studio at the rear of our gym. It was the fourth session and began with Rob talking a bit about what we were going to do that evening. At the … Continue reading
Cowboys and Aliens
Arizona, 1878. Desert. Hot sun. A lone cowboy comes to suddenly, gasping and injured, obviously confused. He has a shackle on his wrist and tries to break it open with a rock, to no avail. In the sand, he finds … Continue reading
The Cone
The cone is a dreaded phrase in South Florida at this time of year. It refers to the cone of probability that appears in every hurricane forecast. The farther out in time the forecast extends, the wider the cone … Continue reading
Meditation and the other side
I’d just finished the fifth session of my six-week meditation course when one of the students, who I’ll call Laura, approached me somewhat hesitantly. She had a question. “Do your students ever make contact with the other side during meditation?” … Continue reading
Mercury Retro and the Debt Ceiling
It’s that time of year again. Mercury, the planet of communication, is due to turn retrograde on August 2. Unfortunately, this is the same day that the deadline looms for raising the debt ceiling of the U.S. For … Continue reading
Bringing darkness into the light
One of the oddities of America’s generally left-leaning cable news channel, MSNBC, is the occasional appearances of far-right icon Pat Buchanan who ran for president in 2000 as an independent to the right of the Republican Party. He’s not just … Continue reading
6 Challenges to Mainstream Science
Marcus Anthony, our Australian friend, futurist, psychologist, and prolific author has provided a list of beliefs that he has come to accept as truths. He has done so not only from research and reading, but primarily from deep exploration. In … Continue reading






