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While testing the big bag of white power he had just found in my carry-on. “Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.” — Marlene Dietrich Luckily, I get to do my fair share of traveling, always carrying various gear and electronics in my carry on bags. Checking expensive gear is not my idea of fun, so I don’t, unless it is unavoidable. I’ve learned much over the years about what to carry and what not to, but this last trip I was carrying something new. Most times, they don’t check me so when they pulled my bag I wondered what was in question. I was in TSA Pre and did not have to take off my shoes or follow some of the other normal criteria, it was unexpected. He said, “I hope you don’t mind, I just have to test a little bit” as he pulled the plastic bag full of white powder out of my case pouring it onto the counter. Christopher Boswell Image When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. —- Abraham Joshua Heschel “Ahh” I blurted “I stuffed that in last minute without really thinking” I decided to be quiet but could hardly stand it, my mouth started moving again, “How’s the money holding out?” He replies “Oh, you mean the pay and the government shutdown” “Yes” I said. “I get it, my employer is changing our payroll system, worrying everyone” Him, “Oh, I’m holding up, some of the others are notContinue Reading

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“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth’s streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms. It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients. From Wikipedia. While you try and wrap your ahead around that paragraph, think of this, It’s all the same water! It all drops from the sky making it’s way off the highest peaks through the mightiest rivers back to the sea, where the cycle starts again. During all this movement it turns salty filling with sodium chloride appropriate for sustaining a large fish population in the ocean. By the time it makes way back to us for use it’s safe to drink, purified once again. Am I the only one that thinks this is an amazing miracle? Christopher Boswell Image “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.” ― Kahlil Gibran Jr. Ilike some of the work Masaru Emoto has compiled before his death. In 2011 he released another volume in his water series called The Miracle of Water. In it, he makes some strong claims that have been much disputed. Image from the Neurologica Blog Yet, I made an immediate strong connection to his work, he photographed thousands of waterContinue Reading