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Charlie Derr

Quite some time…

It’s been a while (since i posted here).

Sep 6, 2024

the central part of a Kilmartin Glen (Scotland) stone circle

Sep 6, 2024

Emergent Ground

i started a company, called Emergent Ground Inc. and as a result, i’m now doing most of my writing elsewhere. Please do check in when you…

Jun 18, 2022

photograph of sunrise, with most of the image being the sky and clouds, though a bit of the horizon and the lake beneath is visible, with wispy fog in the distance just over the water

Jun 18, 2022

Bravo! My willingness to put my own (and especially my family's) well-being at risk has declined…

Sep 24, 2021

Sep 24, 2021

A truly awesome snippet of wisdom

Fresh from an email correspondence this morning:

Mar 11, 2021

A truly awesome snippet of wisdom

Mar 11, 2021

Despair

I wrote the below to a group of friends. Seems worth posting here as well.

Sep 24, 2020

Sep 24, 2020

Rights for the Housatonic River

While i don’t like to start off ‘in opposition’ i have to say that right now, it seems like the right way to begin, because our 21st…

Apr 11, 2020

Rights for the Housatonic River

Apr 11, 2020

Is there a better way?

As i start to compose this piece, one of the underlying reasons for doing so has to do with a long Facebook thread on friend Sianna Lieb’s…

Jan 30, 2020

Is there a better way?

Jan 30, 2020

What do i have faith in?

I have faith in:

Dec 5, 2019

What do i have faith in?

Dec 5, 2019

10 years since the accident

On Thursday April 17th, 2009, the car my mother was a passenger in went out of control between Elizabethtown and Keene Valley in the…

Apr 17, 2019

10 years since the accident

Apr 17, 2019

ongoing transformation

This is a bit of a ‘meta’ followup response continuation to what i posted the other day. If you haven’t already read my piece there titled…

Jan 7, 2019

ongoing transformation

Jan 7, 2019

My personal history as it relates to AI

Until the late ’90s I was a complete layperson. But at that point in my life after having worked outside (construction, landscaping…

Nov 18, 2018

My personal history as it relates to AI

Nov 18, 2018

Politics

Just a few days before the 2018 midterm elections here in the US, I have a fair amount I’d like to “say” about things.

Nov 1, 2018

Nov 1, 2018

On disagreement

Dealing with disagreement, or what to do when you come across a person with whom you don’t agree.

Oct 9, 2018

On disagreement

Oct 9, 2018

_Moral Tribes_

This is a great book by Joshua Greene. It begins with a Parable of the New Pastures, which is of course build on top of Garrett Hardin’s…

Jun 22, 2018

Jun 22, 2018

Future Vision

I can be reached by emailing: charlie [dot] derr [at] gmx [dot] com. I very much enjoy sending and receiving email.

May 23, 2018

Future Vision

May 23, 2018

Guidelines for having a productive discussion, especially with persons one significantly disagrees…

1 Listen carefully to what is said and do your best to empathize, relate and/or understand.

May 22, 2018

Guidelines for having a productive discussion, especially with persons one significantly disagrees…

May 22, 2018

I still miss you Mom

It’s been 9 years since I heard the devastating news that you were killed in a car crash. To say that that event rocked my world in a…

Apr 17, 2018

I still miss you Mom

Apr 17, 2018

Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s _The Phenomenon of Man_ is an incredibly fascinating read. His ideas are grandiose, internally quite nicely…

Feb 16, 2018

Teilhard de Chardin

Feb 16, 2018

Soul as a multi-dimensional black cloak

I’ve been thinking about our soul(s) a lot for a while now. Perhaps even more recently. Souls are something that have a way (for me at…

Jan 29, 2018

Soul as a multi-dimensional black cloak

Jan 29, 2018

Politics

Steemit is definitely worth investigating for those of you not yet familiar with it.

Jan 28, 2018

Jan 28, 2018

Charlie Derr

Charlie Derr

I lean left. I’m very interested in having constructive dialogue with people who hold differing opinions.

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