The Ageless Experiment

February 26: Through the clouds you can see it. At first you don't know what you are looking at. You are already at 15,000 feet and you are looking almost straight up, the clouds break and you see more white but it is not cloud any longer. It is a being, a presence, a chill […]

The beauty is in the innocence. The beauty is in the simplicity of the action. The beauty is in the acceptance of the exact moment you are. That is not a half a sentence. That is the full sentence. The exact moment you are. And then it is gone. Never to return. The gym is […]

How can you even explain it. There is no reasoned way to even put it into words. She is sitting in her highchair, golden hair kind of pulled back with a ribbon, but still the hair seems to have a mind of its own. The blueberrys are all over her face,literally. Some of the blueberrys […]

There he was. Standing in the doorway. His world encompassed nothing more than what was eye level right in front of him and the sounds in the air. There was the carpet, the furniture, the sound from the stereo…he kind of moved up and down and swayed back and forth to the music…and his best […]

February 25: But we have today, you are here now, was his answer. And so it was.We sat on the floor playing with all the toys that were scattered around the family room. There were pirate figures, a pirate ship, a castle with dragons and knights, a lot of horses and other animals which included […]

Her eyes are piercing. It feels as if she is looking right through you to some spot deep inside.The collar of her shirt is dusty and worn. You might even say frayed.Behind her is a yak or a cow or ..it is hard to tell since the picture cuts it off.Her age? Not good at […]

February 24: You see it so often that it doesn't even register yet every once in a while it does. And when it does it makes you wonder what is going on in that life. It is a busy day and the traffic is heavy.There is a backup on the highway,turnpike,exit ,entrance, or any street […]

Call it a fog or a mist. It may just be that we were walking through a cloud. But there it was. North of Tangboche and south of Dangboche in the Khumbu region of the Himalayas. We wandered into a rhododendron forest. A forest of Rhododendrons at 12,000 feet or more. So many different colors. […]

February 23: And then there is the snow leopard. That beautiful creature that lives in the mountains of Asia. Elusive, almost mystical in its coming and goings. Rarely seen, silent, beautiful. But also The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattiessen. An incredible read. A journey of adventure,travel, enlightenment and a read that changed me. He searched […]

February 22: Finding a book written long ago is like finding a buried treasure. It is as if you went into an old abandoned house and opened a hidden box found in the attic. You dust it off , open the lid, see this book and find answers, secrets revealed and thoughts preserved by a […]