Category Archives: The Cascadian Wanderer

“We live in the culture of the Big Me. The meritocracy wants you to promote yourself. Social media wants you to broadcast a highlight reel of your life. Your parents and teachers were always telling you how wonderful you were.” … Continue reading →

Six years or so ago I wrote an article for an online community which was published in February, 2008 about Christians and the Question of Riches. I recalled doing so while reading about Chapter 67 of the Tao Te Ching at Ralston … Continue reading →

The highest good is not to seek to do good, but to allow yourself to become it. The ordinary person seeks to do good things, and finds that they can not do them continually. The Master does not force virtue … Continue reading →

The Tao is forever undefined. Small though it is in the unformed state, it cannot be grasped. If kings and lords could harness it, The ten thousand things would come together And gentle rain fall. Men would need no more … Continue reading →

Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them. Therefore followers of Tao never use them. The wise man prefers the left. The man of war prefers the right. Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise … Continue reading →

Attain the highest emptiness. Maintain constant tranquility. We observe the Ten Thousand Things pulse in unity and return to the void. All things bloom luxuriously and each returns again to its source. Returning to source is the supreme stillness. This is known as the return to … Continue reading →

Every morning, on my front porch while I watch the sun come into our valley here and have a cup of coffee, I think about things. I think about things like, “I wonder if things think about me while I’m … Continue reading →

My name is Bob and I live in the Oregon Cascades. I’m 64 years old. I’m one person on a planet that has 7 billion people on it. One thing I have learned in my time on the planet is this: … Continue reading →