He Won

November 8, 2024
Alaina spoke these words to me as I woke up on Wednesday morning and I was seized with dread and despair. As Tuesday night had descended into a familiar darkness, my hope waned and I recognized the very real possibility that the result might be tragically terrible; I wrestled with the potential outcome throughout my fitful sleep, but it was not until the morning that I fully accepted the bleak and horrific reality. Two days later, I am still tortured by our country's choice and am experiencing deep sadness, anger, confusion, disgust, and fear; I imagine what horrors await us…

Fall 24

September 30, 2024
Northeast USA, Earth weather and temperatures are in the sweet spot now, cool and mellow. The seasonal passage into Fall is always appreciated, although it is accompanied by an absolute hurricane of repopulated schedules and quotidian commitments. The past several weeks have felt like months as our family clambers back into our routine. I am glad we return to such great schools and work, but it is quite an orchestration to get everybody synced. Ivy has ventured into Middle School, which is exciting and involves a new independence, while Miles has joined his first organized sports team, Flag Football, and…

Summer 2024: Entertainment and Recreation

July 18, 2024
It's hot! Brooklyn is blazing right now and I am baking in this atmospheric energy. Fortunately I have enjoyed ample time off and have ensconced to cooler climes frequently over the past month. Our annual Taylor convention in Maine is always a highlight and while our general itinerary is the same; great company of siblings, parents, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles and cousins, fantastic food, boating, fishing, island camping in Casco Bay, hiking in Acadia and relaxing at the cabin, we somehow manage to improve it every year and enjoy it even more as the nine cousins rise in…

Comprehension

June 3, 2024
I am eternally curious! I know I'll never know all there is to know, but learning is always exciting. I could engage with just about any subject and find it fascinating; if I gain any context, perspective or insight into existence, I am enlightened. I seek the Ultimate Truth, and I am on a lifetime quest to understand the nature of Reality; it sometimes seems that the more I learn, the less I know. Most books that I read are non-fiction, but sometimes stories can reflect a truth beyond facts and inspire me in profound ways. I present here my…

Good Reads

January 26, 2024
Books are explorable Universes and Authors are Gods! The Wager - David Grann The Lost City of Z - David Grann Two books of incredible historical adventures by David Grann. The Wager depicts the 1741 shipwreck of a British ship in Patagonia. The voyage itself was excruciating, but the scurvy-laden, storm-throttled crossing was almost benign compared to the trauma that ensued when they landed on a rock in one of the most remote regions on earth. The Lost City of Z follows British Colonel Percy Fawcett in his obsessive search for civilization in the Amazon until his disappearance, along with…

Transition and Evolution

October 5, 2023
I write here fairly infrequently; it's not part of my daily routine so months usually go by between missives. In fact, I neglected the site's maintenance for months and failed to notice that my registration had expired and the site was down for an extended period of time! I'm lucky nobody purchased the available domain (although someone did offer a not-insubstantial amount to buy it from me recently!) and I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused by the disruption, but you will be glad to know that I secured the supergood.org site for the next decade! I may be the only…

Summer 2023

June 22, 2023
We passed the solstice yesterday and officially crossed into Summer, when my work obligations shift from five days a week to two, and my cherished free time blossoms. I celebrated last night with The Cure at MSG and am eagerly anticipating Dead & Company tonight at Citi Field. I have seen some other great outdoor shows already this season including Taj Mahal at Prospect Park and Dave Matthews Band at Forest Hills and have another MSG jaunt next week with Tears For Fears before returning in August for a couple of Phish shows. I was thoroughly entertained by Shucked and…

Time

March 17, 2023
I can tell time, but don't know what Time is; it is one of the most obvious and important features of our existence but the more I think about it, the more I realize that my temporal comprehension is just a simplistic and survivalist adaptation for functional life. It's been five months since I last sat down to write here and all that exists of it is memories, accessed by patterns of electrical impulses in the synapses of my brain. Using the present to tap keys on my laptop creates a lettered breadcrumb trail of my past, which might be…

Books

March 8, 2022
I have a few pockets in my schedule when I get to sit leisurely with a book and I have gotten through some really good ones over the past few months! Overstory by Richard Powers. An incredible work about intertwining roots and purpose. My appreciation of trees grew infinitely. How It Ends by Chris Impey. Basic comprehension of Time and Space for feeble minds like mine. Sum by David Eagleman. Postulates on the afterlife shifting perspective on the nowlife. Storm by George R. Stewart. Written in 1941, describing a storm forming in the Pacific that barrels through North America. Rudimentary…

Debt: The First 5000 Years

July 31, 2013
Since Introduction to Macroeconomics with Professor Michael Claudon in my Freshman year, I have been passionately infatuated with the study of money and its profound effects on every aspect of our civilization and society. It is one of life's greatest marvels that something so ephemeral, dependent completely on a communal belief in its power, could be responsible for almost everything that man has ever made. How could we be so motivated by scraps of metal and paper that we would organize our entire lifestyle and human existence around it? I have always been both fascinated and repulsed by our obsession…