Writings

The arenas (pages) gathered here will present ideas to help us move away from the visual digital dominance of screens and phones that inculcate our minds and prompt emotional responses. Today’s complex societies require, instead, critical thinking, which is the mind’s thought work, and requires training and effort. That thinking can be helped by an understanding and adopting a better framework as a launch point. I hope you find this information and suggestions worthy and will give me your feedback.

“To state the problem is to indicate a method and to inaugurate a program of inquiry.” Attributed to Karl Popper (1902-1994)

An Afternoon Where

Black tree trunks stand like stately sentinels, before high-up dormer eyes, staring across well-turned lawns, undulating and silent. Glossy leaves of ivy and cropped shrubs skirt the grand house. Cloaking around the foundation, up to tendrils splayed, grasping over white wood toward the eaves. Snug in a feigned union of nature and permanence, sitting lordly...... Read More

Wind Tripper

Wind Tripper is Neal Ostmar’s first collection of poetry. The poems present evocative images by using palpable language and lucid metaphors. Poems like “The Nord Sea” and “Faraway” place you in the vast loneliness of the ocean. They convey how the drudgery of work and missing a loved one comes to hang about your shoulders....... Read More
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