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A Topic Tree

I write about whatever catches my interest. As a result, the essays on this web site range all over the map. I've separated them into several broad categories:

Ideas, etc.

Personal

Music

Photography

Flying Things

etc.

The two categories Ideas and Personal have accumulated a lot of essays, perhaps too many to browse. (In the previous iteration of this web site, there were rather large buttons at the top of each page, giving links to all the other essays in that category. One had to scroll down a long way just to find the beginning of the essay. By moving all those links to the left side and eliminating the buttons, I hope I've helped my reader begin reading much more easily.)

In addition, I have created this "Topic Tree" of the essays in those two categories, providing what I hope is a more useful tool for browsing a particular topic. Because many essays could easily be assigned to more than one topic, their links are repeated wherever they seem to fit.

The major category pages list essays mostly in chronological order by date of posting, and give brief introductions to each topic. the "Up" link on each page takes you to the major category page. This page retains that chronological arrangement (more or less), with later essays at the top..

Each title is a link; click on it to go to that essay.

If, after selecting a topic from this (Topic Tree) page, you want to return to this page, use your Back button instead of the links list.

I'd welcome suggestions and comments about this page.

In the Ideas, etc. branch:

Philosophy	Psychology	Culture	Relationships	Politics	Art/Music
Richard Dawkins vs. Ken Wilber	Evolution and the Anthropic Principle	*What I Wish I'd Said...*	*A Long, Drawn-Out Solstice*	*We Hold These Truths...*	*Remembering that First Kiss*
*Naming the Unnamed*	Where Am I?	*Flight of the Phoenix, Redux*	*Deep Playmate*	*"The West Wing" Turning Right?*	*On God Being in the Details*
*Principles in Art*	*Cheshire Cat*	The Power of Fog	*An Alchemy of Telling*	*The West Wing*	*Telling Stories - 2*
*On Believing*	*"I Could Have Been a Contender"*	Copyright Inheritance	*The Geometry of Spring*	*Gene Hackman as President?*	*Music and Language*
*Broad Minded*	*Spirit and Matter*	*Layers*	Being Lifted Out of the Ordinary	*State of the Union*	*Music as Language*
*Patterns, by Paul Simon and Douglas Hofstadter*	*The Enlightenment Conundrum*	*Water? What Water?*	*The Marriage Bond*		*What is Art?*
*Whom Can We Believe?*	*Plodding Down the Path, Seeking . . . What?*	*There Are Beliefs, and . . .*	*The Power of Words*		*Beauty and Spirit*
*The Quest for Certainty*	*Layers*	*Beliefs - Part Two*	*One Life*		*Music, Poetry and Meaning*
*To the Ends of the Earth*	I Believe in Rainbows	*Retro*	*Small World*		*Copyright versus Copyleft*
*The Meaning of Life*	*Astonishment*	*Runaway World*	*Extraordinary Respect*		*Concert for George*
*The Conundrum of Human Nature*	*Circular Thinking*	*The Joy of Science*	*To Reach . . .*		*Music for Non-Musicians*
*A Rant on Religion*	Habits	*You Don't Understand Us*	*The Sound of Silence*		*Music and Magic*
*Analogue*	Cultural Genes	*The New God of Probability*			*Beyond All That*
*Cycles of Transcendence*	*No, the Computer Isn't Smarter than I Am!*	*The Cost of Health Care*			Theme Song Nostalgia
*Prejudice*	*The Head and the Heart*	*Commitment*			*She Blushed*
*The Big Picture*	*On Seeking Truth*	*Conversations*			Don, the Romantic
*Perspective*	*Perceptions and Reality*	*Community as Surrender*
*Mindfulness as Larger Mind*	*Taboo is a Right-Brain Activity*	*Us—and Them*
*Bigger Realities*	Who's In Control Here?	*On Cloning and Other Experiments . . .*
*What Comes Next?*	*Ego and Self*	Music Appreciation Class
*Humor as a higher level of consciousness*	*Click!*
Sometimes, everything goes wrong, but before it goes . . .	*Intuition*
Insight Meditation: Practice Makes Perfect	*Out of My Mind*
Paradox and Paradigm	*Family Thoughts*
I Don't Understand	*Telling Stories*
*Eating is an Intimate Act*	*Emotional Habits*
*Evolution of Spiritual Capacity*	*Emotional Resonance*
My Difficulty with Aaron	*Mind and Matter*
Mindfulness and Mysticism	*The Guy in the Blue Saab*
*Levels of Consciousness*	*Creativity and Psychic Phenomena*
The Taste of Irony	*Magic in My Life*

In the Personal branch:

Memories	Confessions	Self-Discoveries	Others in My Life
*Remembering that First Kiss*	*Snoozing in my Chair*	*Wanting*	I'm Old, Old, he said
*My Visit with the Director of Lawrence Radiation Lab*	Lost to the Clouds	*To the Editor of The Sun*	*On Being Fully Alive*
*Mammogram*	*Tax Time*	*Keeping Up With the World*	*John*
*Rats*	*Prosopagnosia*	*Plodding Down the Path, Seeking . . . What?*	*I Had a Brother, Once*
*Minor Island*	*Fight or Flight or . . . What?*	*Read To Me*	The Wild One
*Landings II and III*	*Voices*	If I Should Die before I Wake . . .	*Are We Connected?*
*Popular Music Ain't What it Used to Be*	Insurance	Theme Song Nostalgia	*An Opportunity to Feel*
Over the River and Through the Woods . . .	*Full Moon*	*The Sun on Me in the Morning*	*The Power of Eyes*
*Memory*	*Garage Sale*	*Missing Pieces*	*The Irony of Being a Vegetarian*
*Everything is Impermanent*	*Pushing On*	*Living Simply*	*The Mouse in the Basement*
*Dawn*	*Muscles*	*Sleeping Beauty*	"Do You Love God?"
*Gaslight*	*Passion*	*"Pay attention!"*	*Relating to Cats and Dogs*
*She Blushed*	*Writer's Lament*	*Zoë Moon*	There are a lot of animals in the mountains
Alice at 21	*Free as a Bird*	*Saving Daylight*
	Silk Scarf	*My Little Town*
	Cookies and Milk	*My Shadow, For Better or Worse*
		*Releasing Dreams*

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