• Midstream Musings – we scale ourselves and return Sisyphus …
- [Draft 10-30-2025] feather & fur a 21st century fable Copyright © 2025 John P. Healy (humility’s hard done by) Claws in the night In the murky stillness, something sharp hit his head, knocking him to the ground. Rising to his knees, claws torn into his back. He howled in pain. […]
- October 31 comes with parties … candy treats … a long and varied history … remembering … This year the Halloween holiday reminded me of the 1983 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1962 dark fantasy novel Something Wicked This Way Comes [1]. But a while back, in considering a story […]
- Meaningscape is a relatively new word – for the contours & connections that we sense and use to grasp our reality. It’s a layered ‘sandwich’ of signs & symbols, beacons & benchmarks, ways & waypoints, memories & meanings. [1] Meaning is relational. Meaning is finding a shared way of reading […]
- I like the way Tim LeBon begins his article (cited below) – with an homage to how ancient Greek & Roman philosophers practiced stoicism. My legacy take typically is that of a “grin and bear it” type of equanimity (without despair). Not ruled by the passions (hello, Mr. Spock, live […]
- So, well-being – beyond a feeling of happiness and a sense of meaning – is more than an end state. It’s something that remains dynamic, something contrary to complacency. It’s an ongoing state of engagement, of paying attention. A key aspect of well-being is a perspective, a skillset which deals […]
- I read this AI research article recently. Its drift fits my narrative re symbiosis – "a collective [and cooperative] human intelligence sort of thing." • Harvard News > "Artificial intelligence may not be artificial" by Liz Mineo, Harvard Staff Writer (September 29, 2025) – The term artificial intelligence renders the […]
- Does career / work success automatically ensure happiness? Do pay increases have large and long-lasting effects on job satisfaction? This article (video) explains that: "To get actual happiness from work, you need to seek two things, and really two things only. We call them earned success and service to others." […]
- "What really makes someone a good person?" Psychologist and neuroscientist Sarah Schnitker studies how traits like patience, courage, and compassion are built through repeated practice in real-life situations. She’s found that virtues grow not from comfort, but from challenge. She shares how in one study, for example, people who fasted […]
- Caption: Diagram for happiness by an unknown author. Creative Commons.
- The future of interdependence between humans and AI? • Phys.org > "Could humans and AI become a new kind of evolutionary individual?" by Santa Fe Institute (9-22-2025) In a recent op-ed published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore […]