David Paul Kirkpatrick's Blog

Dear Subscribers, I wanted you to know that I am moving my blog to the MEDIUM Platform.  Thank you for being part of the experience here on Living in the Metaverse. I will continue to do some updates on this blogging site and the blog will stay “alive”,  but almost all activity will be on […]

Psychologists point to the importance of integrating sorrow into our lives. All world religions point to it as well. Jesus: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” Buddha: “Our sorrows and wounds are […]

Relative to the age of the planet, the dog is a new addition in earth’s menagerie. Charles Darwin initially believed that the dog was a product of the Canis genus, wolf-like animals which included wolves, jackals and coyotes. New DNA information from archaeological digs points to only one progenitor of dogs — the Gray Wolf. While radiometric […]

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jungian psychiatrist and post trauma recovery specialist, writes this to  social activists.  Estes is perhaps most famous for her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves.  I originally posted this in March of 2017. I thought Labor Day, 2018 was a good day to reprint it. This letter  appears, in part, on […]

Personal Note: This is an article reprinted from  MEDIUM. A few years ago, as winter approached, I faced four months of  cold and ice in a drafty two hundred year old home in New England. I woke up alone. I went to sleep alone. I worked, alone,  at home writing or editing for Rabbit Publishers. […]

We are delighted to announce that our novel, the dog, is available free  for a limited time on the dog website. We are proud of the novel and want to get the word out through friends and family. Just click on the private link here.  Simply input a working email address and our publisher will […]

Here’s a preposterous-seeming exercise that has brought me a great and sustained joy. A sensei taught me this little known exercise. A Sensei is a wise person because of his or her years. I wanted to share this exercise with you in the hope that its application might be as powerful in your life as […]

In a conclusion that would have Freud jumping for joy, the warmth of your relationship with mom is seminal to your happiness. That’s right. Mom. And to top it off, along the way, if you have a strong relationship with mom, you might make a lot more money, too. For eighty years, Harvard’s Grant and […]

Human and Dog Eat Together in the Morning My niece, Molly, says that my corgi, Arthur, is a social eater. “When the human meals come, Arthur wants to join in too,” she says. She’s right. When we eat, he eats. I get up at 2 am. So does Arthur. Both Arthur and I start our day […]

  It is the way James Dean holds his boots to the ground.  It is a good rendering of the manner in which western civilization has come to understand how Jesus of Nazareth’s feet were nailed to the cross. One foot over the other foot. And there is a certain reverence in the holding of […]