- Follow Brimmings: up from the well on WordPress.com
Blog Stats
- 25,305 hits
Archives
Categories
- Books (83)
- Economy (27)
- Entertainment (6)
- Environment (53)
- Health (50)
- Lifestyle (87)
- People (50)
- Poetry (17)
- Politics (66)
- Psychology (41)
- Reflections (220)
- Technology (14)
Blogroll
-
Recent Posts
- Why We Name Our Children as We do.
- Thoughts on a remarkable book I’ve just re-read
- Trophy Hunting Looms for Grizzly Bears
- Amy Lowell’s “A Fixed Idea”: An Exploration in Paradox
- Artificial Intelligence: Will It Take Your Job?
- Alzheimer Breakthrough? Bredeson’s The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
- Does American Sign Language (ASL) Have a Future?
- Does the Qur’an Preach Violence?
- Elegy for Iris: A Review
- My hummingbird friends
- NFL Hypocrisy
- Love for All Seasons
- Baseball’s Decline
- The Left’s War on Free Speech
- Reflections on the 2017 Philip Larkin Exhibition at Hull
- Perhaps Someday We Will Learn How to Live
- America’s Unofficial Poet Laureate: Mary Oliver
- On First Looking Into Milford’s Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Sarah Teasdale: “There Will Come Soft Rains”
- Is Mindfulness Warmed-over Buddhism?
- She showed us the way: Reflections on Mary Tyler Moore
- Book fan, Barack Obama
- Happiness: What it is and How to Find It
- Tibet’s Tragedy: A Culture Teetering into Oblivion
- Weighing-in: Reflections on 2016
- Does the Electoral College Have a Future?
- Teach me to measure all my days
- Solace for the Hard Places: Jeffers, “Shine, Perishing Republic”
- You have every right to be afraid!
- Open the door and come right in….
Category Archives: Lifestyle
Why We Name Our Children as We do.
Have you been following today’s trend in baby names? Whatever happened to names like George, Susan, Henry, Robert, Marvin, Kenneth, and Molly? Names typically follow fashion and fashion, of course, changes just like clothing, hairstyles, and music favorites. We’ve this … Continue reading
Perhaps Someday We Will Learn How to Live
Every morning I awaken to a country bristling with hate, intolerance, and violence. Trump bullied his way to the presidency, exploiting public anxieties, e. g., steel belt resentment of jobs sent abroad, latent fears of a changing demographic replacing White … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Politics
Tagged hate, Islamaphobia, Muslims, Southern Poverty Law Center, Trump
Leave a comment
Is Mindfulness Warmed-over Buddhism?
Mindfulness meditation seems everywhere these days. Even the corporate world embraces it, e. g., Google, Facebook, EBay and Twitter. And in medical circles, it’s all the rage, particularly in psychiatry where it increasingly rivals pharmaceutical intervention as a primary therapy … Continue reading
Live Longer Now
It’s funny how your mind takes vast jumps, transcending time and space, hurling you into the past or thrusting you into the future. It’s happening to me now. I remember sitting in my sixth grade class in Florida, fascinated with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Calco, death, immortality, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment, Vector
Leave a comment
My first attempts at meditation
Recently I completed a 28-day online course in Zen meditation from a Buddhist source, not that I’m thinking of becoming a Buddhist, but because I’m drawn to its spirituality, virtually absent in current secular approaches such as the wildly popular … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged Anxiety, Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Mindfulness-based stress, peace, relaxation, restoration, Zen
3 Comments
Why I Relish Going to the Gym
For many of us, throwing off the blankets and crawling out of bed on cold winter mornings to go to the gym seems pretty dumb. I felt that way too until my pre-diabetic diagnosis several years ago which meant that … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Reflections
Tagged diabetes, exercise, fitness, gym, Health, pre-diabetes, workouts
Leave a comment
Cultivating Stillness
I am full of early morning, tucked beneath my comforter, stretching my legs, my brain filling its daily bucket of anxieties sufficient for another day’s wrestlings. These several days I’ve laid siege to my citadel of habit, rising in winter’s … Continue reading
Don’t Be a Phoul: When Neighbors Cut Down Trees
My daughter has been complaining in her recent emails about a family on her street in Bellevue, WA. They’ve cut down two lovely Douglas fir trees, the kind that startle Easterners like me not used to arboreal skyscrapers, many of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Lifestyle, Reflections
Tagged Bellevue, Boston, cities plant trees, douglas fir, New York, planting trees, trees, WA
Leave a comment
Snobbery’s Menace
Politics can be a mean way of life, filled with scurrilous attacks on opponents, replete with prevarication, and downright lying. I stay away from it, as much as possible. Case in point, just the other day former Vermont governor and … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, People, Reflections
Tagged D. H. Lawrence, divisiveness, elitism, Lincoln, politics, snobbery, Steve Jobs, Virginia Woolf, Zuckerberg
Leave a comment
Why I blog, though few will read
It’s time to write again about why I bother keeping a blog. I can’t speak for others, only for myself. What got me started this early morning was looking at a recent blog I subscribe to, and that’s very few. … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Reflections
3 Comments
