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Posted onFebruary 12, 2022February 12, 2022reality, transformation, wisdom

“I Don’t Know”

Photo by Marek Szturc on Unsplash by Dr. Norris Frederick Knowledge is Power “Knowledge is power.”  We’ve heard that many times, and the statement carries a good deal of truth.  To know through the scientific…

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Posted onSeptember 1, 2021September 2, 2021family, reality, self

Who Are You? Questions about the Self

By Dr. Norris Frederick Have you ever wondered who you are? Have you had the experience, like the ones I’ve recently had, of looking at old photos of yourself or reading old letters from yourself…

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Posted onMay 15, 2021May 20, 2021awareness, death, happiness, reality, self, transformation, wisdom

A Wise Woman and Bottle Trees

by Dr. Norris Frederick Bottle Trees We took a trip to visit our friend Flo recently.  She still lives independently, at age ninety-four, in her house, with the help of a community of friends and…

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Posted onMarch 5, 2021March 6, 2021freedom, habit, happiness, James, reality, self, transformation

Optimist or Pessimist?

Photo by John Bakator on Unsplash by Dr. Norris Frederick  What a Winter What a hard winter it’s been. In the winter of 1804-05, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their expedition of some thirty men…

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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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