Issa #100, "8x8", 2007, Mark W. McGinnis The development of consciousness in human beings have left most with what seems to an incurable...

Issa - Bonfires Burn Out, acrylic on paper, 2008, Mark W. McGinnis Our understanding of evil has many times been tied to our...

Diablo Lake - North Cascades, acrylic on panel, 20" X 16", 2010 This essay was presented on November 7th at the Boise...

A Northwest rainforest is a good place to think about lifetime. I can lean on a Douglas fir that has been standing for four to five...

In my previous essay on freedom I wrote about what freedom was not – it was not something that the United States fought wars about. I...

On this 4th of July I heard a fine, intelligent, talented young women give a presentation on her experience in basic training with the...

Death is a subject, an inevitability, that is feared by the majority contemporary human beings. It may well be a primary impetus for the...

When some people are confronted with the information of our basic ignorance concerning both our macro and micro existence they feel...

11-22-08 > Of the sensory gifts of human beings sight is the sense that is most used and depended upon to gain information and...