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Posted onJune 30, 2022July 2, 2022Aristotle, awareness, beauty, Buddhism, family, happiness, reality, religion, Zen Buddhism

We Are All Philosophers

painting by Neville Herbert-Reynolds By Norris Frederick “I love my life, Dad. “I love your life too, Dad. “I’m just curious about life, not death, I just like thinking about life.” It’s a late May…

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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 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 onJanuary 2, 2018August 24, 2020awareness, transformation

The New Year: The Journey’s All the Time

By 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…

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