There are over 180 pages on this web site. These are my personal favorites, the ones I consider to be my best work.
songs
Red Baron song has a music video on YouTube (hyperlink near the top of the page).
Death describes the experience of watching one's parents die and asks questions
about an afterlife.
What Can I Say? is a song about the limitations of language. I really like the
music and the lyrics to this song.
Early Morning Hours describes feelings I felt strongly for many years.
R Band used to open every live show and every practice session with this song.
Evolution is a fun song about the FACT of evolution. There is a link near the
bottom of this page that goes to “Chris's comments” about this song, and that page provides links to
go to other pages about this subject.
Prayer is another song I wrote that I like more than some of the other songs
I've written. I added to its comments page in 2007, so that page reflects some of my latest thoughts on this
subject.
essays
Ishi, the last Yahi is one of the most requested pages on my web site according to
the search engines.
It's the same thing describes the base metaphor of the Mescalero Apache
people, their awareness of the interconnectedness of reality.
In the Company of Eagles is a “cultural analysis” of a novel about
revenge and mercy in the context of World War I aerial combat. I did some linguistic and historical detective work
in the analysis of this novel and its author, Ernest K. Gann.
Fokker Triplane speech is a concise and accurate summary of what is
known about this World War I fighter aircraft.
Help as metaphysics is my analysis of the lyrics to the
Beatles song Help! Optional free mp3 download of the instrumental cover version of this song I recorded
in November 2008.
the essence of Buddhism offers my interpretation of the
essential meaning of Buddhism, influenced by the controversial scholars Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts.
