Dec 15, 2020Chanukah and The Leftovers: Choose LifeTuesday December 15 2020 I wake from a dream. 92–20 is all I remember. I am short of breath. A panic. I drink the air deep deep and now the feeling goes away. Apnea? The feeling of death. The train whistle blows long and loud. The train horn. Four blasts. …The Leftovers2 min readThe Leftovers2 min read
Jul 3, 2020HOW TO STOP COVIDThe way to stop COVID in the United States is to identify all the people in the U.S. who have COVID and then quarantine them for two weeks. Let’s say we set up a National Testing Week. We could set up mobile testing everywhere in parking lots, public parks, and…Covid-193 min readCovid-193 min read
Apr 23, 2020WHO SAYS COVID DREAMS ARE BIZARRE?I have been reading and hearing lots of stories lately on Covid-19 dreams, on NPR, National Geographic, Psychology Today — really everywhere. Most of them have the same premise. People are having more intensely weird dreams. Somehow this is a problem to solve. So most offer a solution: different techniques…Dreams9 min readDreams9 min read
Apr 18, 2020The Two Coronas (part two)In part one of this essay I discussed the fact of the dream, which is an instance of the ongoing primary imagination working within us, and how this imagination which we experience in dreams, can help us to reframe our waking experience. A few weeks ago, the “coronavirus’ crossed over…Coronavirus4 min readCoronavirus4 min read
Apr 11, 2020THE TWO CORONAS (part one)The most important affirmation about our dreams — whether they are so-called bad dreams or so-called good dreams — is the affirmation of the dream itself. I used a quote from the Argentine master Jorge Borges as a preface to The History of Last Night’s Dream: “ Lately I’ve been…Coronavirus7 min readCoronavirus7 min read