My Opinion Podcast at Tennessee by Phil Oliver

A snippet of Vin Scully's last broadcast, in San Francisco 10.2.16.

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year,” and get on with it."

Ockham's razor, Somerset Maugham, William James, and "salvation"

There's an intellectual form of self-neutering that's worse, in some ways, than the tragedy of Abelard and Heloise.

Our fourth and final Lifelong Learner's Happiness class at MTSU will glean the wisdom of Montaigne, Hume, James, Russell, Csikszentmihalyi, and Jennifer Michael Hecht. "Hang a sign that says HOME on a tree and you're done." And, Dr. Seuss: "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

In search of Reality itself, we might do better to focus on lower-case realities like a well-pitched softball game or a World Series championship.

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

A better world has to be possible.

J.S. Mill recovered from overzealous homeschooling with the aid of music and poetry.