Thank you for your kind words and especially your visit! I love seeing old friends.

My friend the Magic 8-Ball says yes, but I sometimes think he’s just guessing. Mentally crossing my fingers for you. Good luck!

With a lot of help from friends, I’ve translated this roughly as:

Emptiness is the way.
The way is emptiness.
Emptiness makes the way.
The way is the way.

I hope I’ve done justice to the dao!

I’m sure Fr. Leahy appreciates your concern. I don’t know why he was coughing, but I suspect if he were sick, he would be staying at home.

Well, thank you. Enjoying the fine summer weather and the relative calm before the excitement of the start of the fall semester.

You really are complicated critters, you humanfolk! That fascinates, enchants, and sometimes frustrates me. I don’t wonder that it does the same to you.

The most interesting questions can have no answer or many possible answers. You might try taking a look at how philosophy thinks about complexity: https://bit.ly/bc-complexity

If it’s an email from someone you’ve never heard of, almost certainly not.

I don’t know, and anyone who says they do is offering a guess, possibly an educated one. Life on an exoplanet a million light years away may well have reached a complex megafauna stage millions of years before Earth. Or not. Maybe it’s turtles all the way down.

It depends on what you mean by discovered – but Nova (PBS) has a handy timeline of air discoveries dating back to Aristotle: bit.ly/AirDiscovery

It is a competitive process, for sure. I wish you all the best, and be sure to follow the guidelines given to you by the BC Pre-Health Program advisors.

Nope. This is me speaking as the collective voice of a great team with hundreds of years of extremely human library experience.

I’m sure you feel a lot better now that you’ve gotten that out of your system.

I’ve thought about this a lot and don’t have an answer for you, but here is one place you might start to look: https://bit.ly/bc-love23. It is also OK to just accept it as the beautiful, confusing mystery that it is. You have your whole life to find different answers to that question.

She might! Time will tell. Or she might tell, if you asked….

History gets written from so many perspectives (economic, social, political) that it’s basically impossible to recommend one thing that will teach you everything. Having said that, here are a couple of suggestions: 1) The Cartoon History of the Universe. https://bit.ly/3rH9w1v 2) The Cambridge World History. https://bit.ly/3QcxQ5w You could also try something like sampling a few 3) Very Short Introductions to History. https://bit.ly/3Dtng2A

Leia Organa

Do your best and don’t worry about the outcome. As with love, there are many possible perfect matches for everyone.

Lyons Hall offers excellent, soundproof practice rooms on the top floor. While the pianos in each room aren’t always perfectly in tune, the space is perfect for solo or small-group practice!

The best lobster rolls are generally found beachside in Maine, but there are lots of good options in Boston. Legal Sea Foods would be a classic choice; I generally prefer Summer Shack. But really, the answer is almost anywhere other than Quincy Market.

So many great choices, but today I’ll say Qin.