I have the privilege to play in a jazz ensemble with a group of students. We meet twice a week, play jazz classics and improvise. In the process we hone our playing skills, and we experience the joy of making music together. We recently played at the homecoming...

To be honest, I was in doubt whether to write a newsletter on being grateful because this topic is often rehashed around Thanksgiving. But I decided to go ahead for two reasons that are related. The first is that we live in a time when many of us our preoccupied with...

In his book The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra offers two ways of thinking: the self-assertive paradigm and the integrative paradigm. The self-assertive paradigm involves linear and analytical thinking, it is based on a reductionist point of view where a complicated...

We all want to be seen and heard, but are you truly listening in your conversations? From my perspective as a physicist, it seems that listening is a simple skill: we just absorb the sound waves, and that’s it! But the reality is not so simple. We only process...

My 19 year old Subaru was doing fine. Well … it had an occasional problem starting. It would need to crank for about 10 seconds and spit out fumes of unburnt gasoline, but then it would run smoothly. This happened only occasionally, about 90% of the times it started...

In the movie “Our souls at night”, Louis is an elderly widower. One night, his neighbor Addie, who is a widow, comes over with a question that she asks with trepidation. Her nights are long and lonely, and she asks Louis if he wants to come over to sleep with her. She...

Pilots use checklists on every flight. There are different checklists for different stages of the flight to make sure that all critical steps are taken. In addition, there are separate checklists that help pilots deal with complexities and emergencies that may arise....

I am fortunate to be able to run on a trail through the wilderness behind my house. The trail is deserted, I rarely meet another person. After running this trail many times, I noticed the scene shown on the photo just off the trail. Heart-shaped rocks are wedged...

This summer I had just started a run and was two blocks away from my son’s house. The pavement was littered with apples and as I was running, I looked down and wondered if these apples could be used to make applesauce with my granddaughters. The next thing I knew I...

You may enjoy listening to my interview with Andrew Geary about Teaching with Heart. Here is the link: https://library.seg.org/doi/full/10.1190/tle43060408.1 Y Alternatively you can just click on there image.