A bit about me and what I write about

I am a person that thinks a lot about how to lead a meaningful life and what a generative culture might look like. I’ve experimented with writing some fables to express that. I might continue or I might go off in another direction although my guiding principles have to do with generativity.

Here’s how Miriam Webster describes ‘generativity’:  “a concern for people besides self and family that usually develops during middle age especially: a need to nurture and guide younger people and contribute to the next generation’

I believe I may be an agnostic although I’m really not quite sure what that means. I have a hard time defining what God is, so whether or not I believe in God is a bit like thinking past the sale.

Probably the conception of God that resonates the most for me is the Tao Te Ching and the idea of God as “the Way”: An impersonal set of principles that govern our physical world, human collective behavior and how these intersect with the individual human psyche. 

There are ways to live that bear maximum fruit and I think it is all our responsibilities to humbly seek out what these ways might be.  These ways to live and sets of principles to follow would help achieve maximum meaning in every human life.  These ways also result in societies that maximize human flourishing and stewardship of our material world.

I don’t claim to know what these ways are. I believe that those who best embody this knowledge are said to have “wisdom”. I am cultivating the habit of reading old wisdom texts, both secular and religious, to better understand what “the way” or “God” might be.

I believe that people and societies that stray too far from “the way” will experience collective horror.

I document my reflections here, inspired by different texts and what I see unfolding around me in our present time.

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“Just ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the experience of our ancestors. For we were born but yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow. But those who came before us will teach you. They will teach you the wisdom of old.”

Job 8:8-10