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It is a beautiful day in Green Valley, the temperature is warming. The light is bright but not enough to make you blink. I have had many hits on this site but very few comments, much like an infant crying his or her heart out but mom and dad do not respond. I find it analogous to our situation in the universe, the waa-waa of human beings in the void, no one to hear us, much less respond. It only goes to prove a point I’ve been making in these blogs — perhaps they are misnamed and should be called…

Here I sit looking out my paned window at the Arizona light and feeling that I want to say something, but not knowing what. It is not an itch to write or a compulsion so much, but a Windex smear across my internal optic (huh?). I still don’t have it as I fuss with these words within this sentence which is coming to an end. So I lean back on my squeaking chair and wait. Please wait as I wait. Something says that I should write about conditioning, a major theme in the works of the spiritual master, Khrishnamurti. At…

In perusing my name on Google I came across a letter written by one of my former students in the 10th grade advanced class, Jason Levine. The New York Times published it, among other letters to the editor, after I kicked up a dust devil in the community. In an earlier blog I mentioned that I taught English  — and also administered an alternative high school — in Dix Hills, a suburban school on Long Island, which I usually referred to as the hills of Dix. I wrote two letters to the editor of the New York Times which were extended essays about…

The complete interview can be found by going to Subtle Tea under links. Look for it under the magazine’s archives. And to get an idea of how David writes, see his review of The i Tetralogy.