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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 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 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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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 onNovember 2, 2016August 17, 2020beauty, consumerism, death, Epicurus, happiness, worldview

Philosophy Unlimited: Intelligent Pleasure

by Dr. Norris Frederick One of the joys of travel to another country is the discovery of new landscapes, new customs and cultures, and new people.  We find some ways in which the culture and…

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