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Posted onDecember 28, 2020December 30, 2020anxiety, awareness, beauty, happiness, reframing, transformation

A New Year and The Journey

Dr. Norris Frederick I’ve been traveling down interstates 77 and 81 for about 3 hours, and the roar of trucks going 75 mph is getting to me.  I’m on the way to the Virginia mountains…

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Posted onNovember 19, 2020December 29, 2020anxiety, awareness, beauty, Buddhism, freedom, habit, James, self, transformation

Not What I Expected

text and photography by Dr. Norris Frederick “The great point is that the possibilities are really here.  The issue is decided nowhere else than here and now.  That is what gives the palpitating reality to…

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Posted onOctober 8, 2020October 28, 2020awareness, beauty, habit, James

Seeing Things Anew

Text and Photos by Dr. Norris Frederick  “My experience is what I agree to attend to.”      — William James[1] As I awake one morning, I lie in bed thinking about the classes I…

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Posted onJuly 31, 2020July 31, 2020anxiety, consumerism, freedom, happiness, Stoicism

The Ongoing Pandemic: Illness, Anxiety, Anger and “The View from Above”

Newport Beach, California  By Dr. Norris Frederick Since I wrote my post in early May, “Philosophy for the Pandemic: Stoicism”, the epidemiologists’ warnings about what could happen when stay-at-home restrictions were relaxed have come true:…

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Posted onMay 5, 2020May 16, 2020Epictetus, reality, Stoicism, transformation

Philosophy for the Pandemic: Stoicism

“Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not…

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Posted onDecember 7, 2019February 20, 2020death, family, friendship, reality

David McKnight: What Lives On

by Dr. Norris Frederick Our friend David McKnight died almost three years ago, but he is not forgotten. A year ago I concluded a three-part series on David and his journey from being voted “Most…

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Posted onAugust 17, 2019January 15, 2020consumerism, Epicurus, happiness, pleasure, self

The Life of Stuff and the Life of Simplicity

by Dr. Norris Frederick In the video clip [1], George Carlin asks with his inimitable humor, “That’s the whole meaning of life, isn’t it: trying to find a place to put your stuff?”  In questioning…

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Posted onJune 19, 2019August 14, 2019anxiety, Epicurus, order

Marie Kondo, Me, and the Philosophy of Simplicity

by Dr. Norris Frederick Marie Kondo is quite the thing these days.  Her New York Times #1 best seller book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing and her…

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Posted onFebruary 2, 2019August 26, 2020anxiety, Buddhism, Epicurus, James, Zen Buddhism

Fixin’ Things

by Dr. Norris Frederick    My family preferred to deal with challenges and craziness with humor, thus the plaque my sister Virginia gave to me on a recent birthday, “Just remember: as far as everyone…

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Posted onNovember 14, 2018January 15, 2020alienation, Aristotle, beauty, death, family, friendship, self

Friendship and David McKnight: Homeless, Musician, Journalist, Statesman, Friend

David McKnight at the Durham Farmer’s Market, Sept. 2014.  Photo by Bill Pope. By Dr. Norris Frederick Third and Final Part (part one is here and part two here)  “In poverty, too, as in all…

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