Stories
Stories about facets of lives lived and, implicitly, components of mental functions.
Egon Zaberfeld and his neighbors
Egon Zaberfeld and his neighbors1 I am a bare bones writer meaning….I’m more interested in using a story as a vehicle for thinking about how minds work than describing what a character was wearing as he sat down to eat a bowl of oatmeal. This is a story about how...
Tragedy
Tragedy In the midst of the horrors of war our attention can be captured by trivia and absurdities. (Leopold Barth) The farmer Kyrylo Mintz’s son has been lost in battle. He is not coming home. He stands in the middle of his garden just outside the town of Bila...
The Noah Saga: Characters on the Ark
Characters on Noah's Ark The Noah Saga is inspired by the story of Noah's Ark as described in the bible which includes events leading up to the building of the Ark, the great flood, the rescue of pairs of all of the earth's animals, life on the Ark, and...
Conversations with a horse
Conversations with a horse My name is Egon and I have always been a bit spacy spending more time in my mind than in the real world. Play, storytelling, and other mind games, help me escape from a world that I have learned is dangerous. I know that is true and so does...
Children learn to tip toe around their world
Children learn to tip toe around their world Children learn to tip toe around their world Kids may know less than adults but their minds make use of what they know often as well as adults. Just watch kids cautiously move about a dangerous world and you will see what I...
Clutches
Clutches A half dozen kids—all first graders—regularly gathered to play in a small green triangular patch in our Mt. Washington neighborhood. In just a few days, we will start the new school year at Mt. Washington Elementary, about a quarter mile away. We planned to...
Curious
It is Wednesday night and dinner is done. Some of the animals have left the dining room, stuffed. Others stayed behind to hear yet another tale of minds at work. They would have preferred an evening of music and dancing but….oh well as the Wobbly Fern Duck pointed...
Back from the world of the dead
How do I understand what you are telling me about your experience? What do you see when looking at the same thing I am looking at? Our minds speak a language that is uniquely ours. To share what’s in your world takes work, patience, and respect. And sometimes, even...
Group portrait with pear: A Noah saga story
The past seems to have disappeared forever. As each day passes, the picture of Medina gets blurrier. The Ark’s animals invent stories of what life was like in Medina. They question Noah’s wisdom and judgment. “Can we count on Noah as our leader?” That question is no...
The dazzling drambuzy bird lost her song. From the Noah Saga
Of course, it didn’t nor could it happen all at once. Birds don’t wake up with Alzheimer’s disease. It creeps up on them slowly; in little dabs will do you, incubated nonsense codes, spin juices in the head that scramble the good codes and replace them with random...