Introduction

This blog was set up as a place to put my thoughts for others to access, some of which were written long before the Internet. To browse around it, please see the "Labels" section to the left. Its contents include the following:

• Most posts from 1970 through the '80s consist of prose, poetry and songs from high school and college years, in the approximate order they were written, from a turbulent adolescence to finding meaning in life.
• Everything posted as 1990 was actually written during and shortly after my Masters studies at UC Davis and kept in a journal titled "Coral and Pearls - A Collection of Essays". Many were heavily influenced by side research into the Anisa Model of education, as some will easily recognize.
• Posts from 1991 forward are mostly adapted from letters written to family and friends, several on Baha'i topics.
• Around 2005 my writing started to center more on my "Culture of Peace" project, starting with "Rethinking Social Science". You can find an overview of how it has unfolded in My Fight for Peace and a summary of the project in Moving from a Culture of Conflict to a Culture of Peace.

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Please keep in mind that no matter how convinced I may sound of my ideas at any given period, I am fully aware that this is merely the best I was able to come up with at that time, and either already think differently or expect to at some point. If not, I will have stagnated in my search. Perhaps it will be your comments that will bring about that change, so please feel free to question, challenge and propose new approaches!

For a completely different selection of posts in Spanish, see my blog in Spanish.