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Reflections

On Scrupulosity

Dear fellow spiritual traveler,

You made a wrong turn along the way. Maybe the map was upside down. You find yourself alone in a wilderness... that is, aside from hidden pits that make you ever vigilant; aside from tangling vines that impede your progress; aside from lonesome howling winds; and aside from the silence – the absence of the only voice you really want to hear. There is a light at the distant horizon, and you must reach it ... or maybe it was a mirage. – Why, oh why, couldn't you have been one of those crystal rubbing hippies? At least they act like they've figured it out. At least they seem... at peace?

Meg's First Camping Trip

This past weekend I took Baby Meg (3.5yrs old) on her first camping trip. And boy was it memorable. For starters check out our digs:

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It's not a tent, and it looks an awful lot like an upscale deer blind. But no... as far as Meg is concerned, this is her "Castle in the Sky". I showed it to her in the afternoon and she was excited to find out that that night we were going to sleep in the Castle in the Sky.

Climbing Mount Maslow

In his 1943 paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, Abraham Maslow introduced a simple principle that has had a profound influence in the fields of psychology and sociology. Namely, he introduce the concept of a hierarchy of human needs which he termed Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization and Self-Transcendence. And Maslow's big main point here was that it is necessary to first satisfy the basic needs before we can even have the luxury to start worrying about the higher-level concerns. But for me, looking through Maslow's hierarchy in some detail, it seems that all the cool kids hang out towards the top of that hierarchy. I've been there in the past, and am occasionally so fortunate as to touch the top of the hierarchy again from time to time. But I think that I (we) can do better than this! So I determined myself to try and devise a way to "hack" Maslow's Hierarchy so as to maximize the time I'm spending near the top.

Greetings

This is the first post of what I hope will be many posts to come. Being the first, I feel that it is import to lay out the themes that I intend to cover and the goals that I expect to achieve. However -- having not the slightest idea of what I will do with this blog, or even if I'll do anything with it at all, you'll have to be satisfied with the pretentious sounding introductory material which you are currently reading.