Category Archives: Chip Schoefter

I like astronomy. The recent landing on Mars was an exciting event in the midst of our pandemonium. It set me off into a rev­erie, where I realized that we never wake up in the morning in the same space/time … Continue reading →

I like my wayback machine. It sweeps me back to beginnings, so that I might find a solid footing on this curious curvaceous path of American history. So I want to go back to the renaissance, back to the enlightenment, … Continue reading →

I want to offer my take on these troubled times from a longer view, and to do that we need to hop aboard the wayback machine to the beginning of the ‘Axial’ age, several thousand years ago. It’s called the … Continue reading →

The simple and obvious understanding that shock is an integral part of our human experience goes back deep into our history. The above title comes from the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. Every culture, and every person knows shock intimately. … Continue reading →

It’s been a good ride, hasn’t it, the last hundred years of fossil fuel extraction? Good stuff everywhere. My grandmother’s farm in North Dakota had electricity when I was a young boy. There was a refrigerator, and a chest freezer … Continue reading →