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Un-heroic discoveries of 2024
I thought I’d try to pluck one small thing from my past year to share. What came to mind is a little shift that happened in my taste for stories that might reflect a cultural shift. For most I’ve my life I’ve gravitated toward hero stories, which I recognized in my twenties when I read…
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2024 US election reaction
We’ve knowingly consented to the use of disinformation to gain power. I’ve been bewildered by this since the 2016 election. Being a technologist by trade I pondered ways to use technology to counter disinformation, but my thinking has changed. I now believe we are vulnerable to disinformation because we are in pain, and the best…
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2023 Shares
This year was stressful in ways that I’d rather not share. Rest assured the reasons are personal and mundane, and not life-threatening. At the risk of promoting an over-idealized internet version of my life, I thought I’d just share some nice things that stood out or helped me in 2023. These are for your enjoyment,…
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2022 Review
It’s been a transformative year for me. I feel like a different person in many ways. There were a lot of challenges and I hope to share some of the things that helped me get through them. It was my last year with my father Daniel, much different from any other. At the end of…
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My Tho Eveningscape by Daniel Kreadman Kuhn
My father Daniel didn’t quite make it to veteran’s day this year. I’m remembering him today with this poem he wrote as an army officer in Vietnam. My Tho Eveningscape just a trace of a windmoving the damp felt air,this slight keenery of tactilityfeathers over me alone on the rooftopwatching the day whisper into deathwith…
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Daniel Kreadman Kuhn left us today
My father Daniel died peacefully this morning, Sunday November 6 2022. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2008, and survived prostate cancer in 2015. I would like to write more about his life, but today is about giving and receiving love from all who knew him. Thank you.
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The publishing of the PaCT
At last, my lifelong friend and hiking partner Peter Miles Bergman is taking orders for his 263-page art-book and memoir chronicling the two halves of our Pacific Crest Trail hike and the 23 years in between. As a character in the story my opinion may be suspect, but I love this book and the companion…
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2021 Review
I won’t lie, my ideas about this year are mucky at best. Maybe that’s a succinct summary of sorts. Perhaps taking a little tour through the muck will demuckify it a little. My 2016 review outlined my practice of using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for perspective and reflection. Aside from a childish urge to change…
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Notes on 2020
This has been a year to go down in the annals of blogs, wikis, and feeds for the ages. I’ve fared better than most I think, but my life has changed completely. I’m now sitting at a desk in a bedroom in Phoenix, feeling tired, uncertain, hopeful, determined, scared, cynical, stoic, weak, strong. How, broadly,…
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Plan to vote now
I made my voting plan tonight. Well, actually Ann did, but I did some of the thinking part! We can’t help each other too much, or too soon, and the time to do it is now. Online Tools There are a plethora of websites out there purporting to help us through the voting process. I’m…