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Posted onOctober 15, 2022October 22, 2022family, happiness, religion, self, transformation

Gifts, Memory, and Self

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just…

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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 onSeptember 1, 2021October 14, 2022family, 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 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 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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