Ageless in Spirit: Discussions and interests for our times

 February 26 Well, first a poem The Road Not Taken  Launch Audio in a New Window BY  ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken Well, seemingly simple but as I read it I think of our journeys and forks in life we take closing off other cho

 February 6, 2021 I've been giving some thought to appreciating how we cheat, lie, and manipulate reality for fun, serious pursuits, vengeance, and of course gain. Well, definitions cheating is creating the ingredients for personal motives that remain mostly hidden from view for outcomes that favor us. For example, here's a person's description   " There is something wrong with both of her parents. No matter what game we play, they are under the impression that if something is NOT stated in the rulebook, that makes it a legal play. For example, we were playing Azul and her father was scoring tiles that were not even touching as part of his multipliers*. He claimed that since it was not forbidden in the rule book, he could score the tiles that way for extra points. While this is going on, her mother is covering the board with her hands and is not letting anyone else look while she is scoring. Again, nothing in the rule book against it so it's fair game. I tried to c