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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 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 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 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 onJuly 21, 2017August 17, 2020death, Epicurus, reality

Death: Out of Sight, or Front and Center?

By Dr. Norris Frederick Second in a series My thanks to you for the many thoughtful responses, both on my website and on Facebook, about my first post on death.  A couple of you wrote…

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Posted onJune 9, 2017August 17, 2020death, Epicurus, existentialism, Stoicism

Death: Many Questions

By Dr. Norris Frederick There’s been way too much death in my world in the last year:  four nearby neighbors, three cousins, two close high school friends, and one Robert Pirsig, the author of Zen…

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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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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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