Derivations on a Theme

In this ongoing series, I take a theme or subject matter addressed on another blog and expand on it or take it in a different direction.  My inspiration for this series comes from classical music.  In the days of yore, it was not uncommon for a composer to write a piece of music that was a derivation of another composer’s composition.

This list is presented in chronological order with the most recent posts at the bottom.  After each title, I will show parenthetically the blog that served as the impetus for the derivation.

• Perspective (What Is Really Good?)
• The Pain of Death (Christian Taoism)
• Taking Pause (Stationary Pilgrim)
• When Life Sucks (The Tao of Chaos)
• Large and Small (A New Shade of Black)
• Repetition (A New Shade of Black)
• A Derivation on My Own Theme
• Vacancy (Daily Cup of Tao)
• Where the Path Leads (Pure Mountain Tao)
• Taking Credit (Tao Wow)
• No Rhyme for Reason (Personal Tao Musings)
• Outlook (Pure Mountain Tao)
• It Ain’t Easy (Annastao Blog)
• If You Want to Get to Heaven (NW Ohio Skeptics)
• Staring in the Wrong Direction (The Philosophy of Me)
• I’m with the Big Guy (NW Ohio Skeptics)
• Numbers One and Two (Pyjama Dharma)
• Naming Names (Rambling Without Bounds)
• Between Two Poles (Nothing Just Is)
• Solid Footing (Transformations)
• Bye Bi? (Diary of a Daoist Hermit)
• Only the Shadow Knows (Tao Wow)
• Boiling Over (Know Your It’s)
• So Full of Ourselves (NW Ohio Skeptics)
• Among Us (NW Ohio Skeptics)
• Can’t Buy It (Climate & Capitalism)
• You Don’t Know Me (NW Ohio Skeptics)
• Looking Back, Moving Forward (NW Ohio Skeptics)
• The Next Great Thing (The Philosophy of Me)
• Certain Uncertainty (Christian Taoism)
• And When I’m Gone (On Leaving Fundamentalist Christianity)
• Love Hurts (Notes From the Outside)
• Probabilities (Fallen From Grace)
• Experience Counts for Something (This Can’t Be Happening)
• Who’s Your Daddy? (Fallen From Grace)
• The Real Deal (Fallen From Grace)
• In the Eye of the Beholder (Fallen From Grace)
• Programmed Responses (On the Other Hand)
• God Must Really Hate Me (Fallen From Grace)
• Personal Shortcomings as Public Policy (Missing Pieces)
• A Bit of Yin, A Bit of Yang (Moccasin’s PCT Hike)
• A Many Splendored Something or Other (a recent Scott Bradley post)
• The Biggest Fan of All (Fallen From Grace)
• You Never Walk Alone (Roshi Hogan’s Teachings of the Tao)
• All Creatures Great and Small (Roshi Hogan’s Teachings of the Tao)
• Getting Away With It (Fallen From Grace)
• The Creative Power of Angst (Effortless Flow)
• Santa, God and Unicorns (Fallen From Grace)
• Without God (The Useless Tree)
• Water Balloons (The Way Forward)
• Hanging It Up (On Leaving Fundamentalist Christianity)
• Dying to Know (Church of the Churchless)
• Hand Ball (Thoughts From a Sandwich)
• The Fruits of Evil (Notes From the Outside)
• Inflections Make a Difference (A Quiet Watercourse)
• Everything Is Recycled (Paul Craig Roberts)
• About-Face (The Way Forward)