At My Creative Saddle Point

At My Creative Saddle Point

Although a horse saddle is a beautiful piece of engineering, whenever I see one, I think instead of the mathematical saddle point—in this case, the central point on the surface of the saddle which curves up both ways along one axis, but curves downwards both ways in...

Career, Soul, And Ikigai

Career, Soul, And Ikigai

In what may well be the philosopher and poet John O’Donohue’s best book, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, he points out one of the traps of a "successful" career: Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it. This...

On Curiosity

On Curiosity

The photo above shows my cat Roo being quite curious about a new item in the house: balloons. Friend or foe? Alive or not? Anything to do with food? Any threat? I am sure these were some of the questions Roo sorted out for himself, and after about ten minutes, he left...