When the Quiet Quiet Down

May 30, 2010

Here’s one for the hermit researchers – or the shrinks. The wordiness of life has been bugging me more than usual lately. It’s been almost six weeks since I’ve written anything for this blog and I have to confess there were moments when I seriously considered abandoning the endeavor.  I’ve talked about these phases before. [...]

Hermit Psychology: Introverts Spinning Donuts In the Cave

April 29, 2009

It’s a fair assumption that most intentional hermits are introverts – like Griz and me. There may be a few extrovert hermits about, but they are likely unintentional hermits – living in solitude by accident or sacrificial choice – hiding from the law, castaways on uncharted islands, last-man-on-earth characters like Will Smith in I Am Legend. Introverts as a whole (not just [...]

Can You Get Blog from a Hermit? Not for Awhile.

February 15, 2009
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This blog is six months old today and this will be my last post for awhile. It is premature to conclude my blogging experiment altogether – I have more to learn about blogging and more to learn about myself as a blogger.  I have several more posts mentally drafted, several most memorable hermits to write [...]

Curiously Close to the Mark – Hermit Brain Types: Griz is a Whiz, I am a "Peculiar Being."

October 19, 2008
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A few posts back I quoted Chinese hermit Han-Shan whose explanation of the hermit life included “our minds are not the same/if they were the same/you would be here” which reminded me that a few years ago Griz and I had the opportunity to complete Jonathan Niednagel’s Brain Type Questionnaire. Niednagel’s Brain Typing is a sport psychology [...]