Umbrage, Part 2: "There Are No Happy Psychologists," Declared the Happy Hermit (Though It Didn’t Really Matter)

March 29, 2009

Yes, I’m just trying to be provocative and I presume that is also Professor Christopher Peterson’s intent when he uses the phrase “there are no happy hermits” in his U. Michigan psychology lectures. But I’m quite certain I’m not the only happy hermit in the world, so I’ve decided to come to the defense of [...]

Eremite Mike’s Blog: Reflections on Solitude, Exceptional Contemplative Prose

March 19, 2009

I found Eremite Mike’s Blog after Mike left a comment on this blog. Though Mike didn’t leave a link to his blog (perhaps because the blog is quite young), his comment revealed a clear empathy with the hermitic path, so I searched him out. I am continually impressed with the profound beauty and depth of his [...]

A "Called" Writer: Memorable Hermit Thomas Merton

January 15, 2009

I will generally shy away from the consecrated Catholic hermits in this blog.  My exposure to and understanding of Catholicism is so limited that it hardly seems fair to mention even one.  But Catholic mystic Thomas Merton [1915-1968] wrote so eloquently about silence and solitude that he belongs on my list. Merton’s poems, essays and autobiography have a [...]

Solitude and Personal Self-Sufficiency – External and Internal

September 10, 2008
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I’ve been following Kierkegaarden on Twitter.  My hermit nature was recently attracted to this: “Someone out in a blizzard dressed in the lightest summer clothes is not as exposed as one who wills to be a solitary human being in a world where everything is alliance and accordingly, with the selfishness of the alliance, demands [...]