An Engineer's Perspective

R.M. Dolin, 2018 There should have been more.More comfort . . . more happiness.If only our effort to escape gravity were fair.If only outcomes were more predictable.We secretly envy Coyote for the seamlessly wayhe revels in mischievous moments we’re compelled to control.Our random walk toward …

There should have been more.More comfort . . . more happiness.If only the effort to overcome gravity were fair.If only the outcome of our choices more linear.We mostly travel like Coyote;our causal path toward chaos randomly affectingboth rise and fall. At some point it becomes …

R.M. Dolin, 2018 You rescued me.Not from life.Not from the mundane relentlessness of movement and consequence.You rescued me from the purgatory ofa self imposed world devoid of miracles, magic,and passions that drive an anxious sunrise.You rescued me from haunting ghosts with theirstealth rumors and tarnished …

R.M. Dolin, 2016 It’s an indecipherable dichotomy;how shadows deepen as we naivelystep into light causing even the mostoptimistic to conclude evil is inevitable.You build over a long and often painfulprocess. Steadily inching toward a perfectoutcome amazed how simple life seems whenviewed through a window. When …

R.M. Dolin, 2016 Security comes with peril. Those who protect andserve sometimes don’t. Truths we actively work to concealfind ways of catching up. Think of it as Newton’s Second Lawapplied with human entropy. The long pull of our past isdifficult to escape and for whatever …

R.M. Dolin, 2016 Celebrating life through wine. An age oldaffirmation of what it means to enjoy essentials likeempanadas at dawn with well-made coffee, or aproperly produced Port late at night.Layers layered on layers, a lot of life is a lie.There are always souls unsettled.Like a …