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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 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 onJune 19, 2019November 23, 2021anxiety, 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 onSeptember 14, 2018January 15, 2020alienation, anxiety, Aristotle, beauty, friendship, self

What Else Matters? Friendship and David McKnight

By Dr. Norris Frederick Part Two In Part One (which you can read here), I wrote about my friendship with David McKnight, beginning in the mid-60’s with high school, where he was voted “Most Likely…

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Posted onJuly 25, 2018August 17, 2020anxiety, Aristotle, friendship, self

What Else Matters? Friendship

by Dr. Norris Frederick “No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all the other good things.” –  Aristotle[1] David McKnight 1966 high school yearbook Aristotle is right: who would want…

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Posted onJune 12, 2018May 7, 2020anxiety, friendship, self

What Else Matters? Achievement

By Dr. Norris Frederick Second in a series After 28 years of attending and watching commencement exercises at Queens University of Charlotte, I’ve come to expect a certain routine of music, speeches, and the awarding…

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Posted onSeptember 8, 2017January 16, 2022anxiety, death, James, religion, worldview

Healthy-Mindedness and the Sick Soul

By Dr. Norris Frederick Third and final in a series on death The recent solar eclipse was almost total here in Charlotte, and a large number of people gathered on the Queens University campus to…

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Posted onAugust 5, 2016August 17, 2020anxiety, death, existentialism, family

Thrown-ness: Understanding an experience of disruption

by Dr. Norris Frederick Philosophy offers us new ways of seeing the world and living in the world, thus helping us live and enriching our consciousness.  At first these new insights create a rupture in…

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