Harvey Lillywhite.

by Harvey LillywhiteInherent in the title of this small essay is the assumption that the practical and the ideal conflict and that one must be creative in negotiating that war. I mean, it wouldn’t be very practical to walk around all day being idealistic, nor would it be very ideal to walk around all day being practical. It occurs to me that we pick our battles depending … [Read more...] about Crickets and Spiders: Creative Solutions for Practical Idealists

by Harvey Lillywhite He wanted to dwell in the Temple of Love, like everyone else, and he knew that its walls were made of the here and now, that they were in point of fact invisible, stretching as they did from eternity to here. He was certainly aware that life was a big bang, that each of us was a big bang, a peculiar cosmos sparked out of nothing and nowhere, existing for no … [Read more...] about The Further Adventures of Sir Real

THE END OF PRETENDING: What? Me Afraid of Death? by Harvey Lillywhite There was a little turbulence, nothing out of the ordinary for someone who flies a lot. Then it got a little worse-a stomach-in-the-throat drop, swaying wings teeter-tottering along. If you had a drink on your tray table, it was sliding back and forth. "Sorry for the turbulence, but there's no way … [Read more...] about Fear of Death

by Harvey Lillywhite We are story-telling beings; we make up how things go together. You might say there are two approaches to creating stories: the transcendental and the mundane (not banal; just of-the-earth, the everyday). Using the first approach, we begin with a truth (a belief), which becomes the springboard for the story. Such stories are not only common, … [Read more...] about Why I Am Not A Man

by Harvey Lillywhite Something's missing. Something that should be there is not, and this bothers me, though I'm enlightened enough to know that it shouldn't. Sometimes it's easy to say what's missing, though it may be impossible to fix. And sometimes it's hard to say exactly what I think I need to fill the emptiness. Or something that should not be … [Read more...] about Something is Missing