David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Ballet Class Visitor, Lonely Cat Art Impressionist Parody
The inspiration for Ballet Class Visitor, Edgar Degas, did just about everything wrong in his personal life. But although difficult and contrary, he created unforgettable art. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Even his one time ally in…
Cézanne’s Cats Scan His Tempting Apple Basket Of Art
Paul Cézanne’s cats couldn’t resist that apple basket and all the great things in it. As soon as he wander off for lunch, they did the cat thing. Secretly. The Cats in Paul Cézanne’s Apple Basket By David Stone Assorted…
Matisse La Danse Parody, Whirling, Happy Nudes and a Cat
Henri Matisse La Danse with a Cat is an edited first chapter in Famous Artists’ Cats: The Book. When Henri Matisse painted La Danse (I) in 1909, for all its fame, it was only a compositional study, He planned a…
Off We Go Now Into The Mysterious Dream of Sleep
When we work our way into meditation or deep sleep, we pull down some walls, roll up the sidewalks and wander freely through altered awareness. We see things. We pass them off as dreams, as if dreams don’t count.
Now Entering the Strangeness of Inner Spaces, Time Without End
Our inner spaces are peppered with strangeness. We invent like mad scientists to plug holes with acceptable excuses for insight.
Dizzying Conflicts: Thoughtful Meditation On What We Really Are
This Internal-External Realities Meditation comes from the final section of A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World’s Happiest Man. It’s concerned with the strange, maybe imaginary, border between our internal and external realities.
Words and Ultimate Reality, Paradox With Time
Words and ultimate reality… To know something about ultimate reality, must we put it in words? Must insight about conscious awareness be verbal? If either thing is true, we’re in trouble because our languages haven’t been very good at explaining…
A Million Different Things… And Night, The Endless Story
That’s what life is, you know, a ramble. I changed my thinking a while back about how all that apparent motion goes. Like most, I’ve thought of my life’s course as passing along a trail, following a thread with a…
The Truth Behind Going Home Illusions
About Going Home Illusions… There must once have been at least a jiffy of wholeness, a twinkle in the cohesion of seamless belonging. Every cell may contain the residues in its universal library. Our desire to rejoin seasons every step,…
On the Fly, Up, Out or Beyond Evolution
Beyond evolution…? For most of us, a realization that there may be no God and that the whole shebang we’re living is a meaningless hodgepodge is as demoralizing as anything else percolating through the shrouds in those lost hours between…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor