The Useless Tree

Aidan

  • Aidan Martin Crane, October 18, 1991 – March 19, 2006

             In all beneath heaven there’s nothing bigger than the tip of an autumn hair, and T’ai Mountain is tiny.  No one lives longer than a child who dies young, and the seven-hundred-year-old P’eng Tsu died an… Continue reading

  • The Abyss

        It’s been a long hard ten days since Aidan first fell ill.  And the worst of it is: the doctors do not expect him to live.     We were in the pediatric intensive care unit for a… Continue reading

  • It’s on days like these that Taoism helps

        My son, Aidan, wound up in the hospital today with a fever of 107.8.  Yes, that’s correct, 107.8.  It was the highest temperature several of the doctors we encountered along the way had ever seen.  It threw his… Continue reading

  • A Place for Aidan

    This piece ran in the Boston Globe, May 21, 1999, under the title, "A Place for Aidan." Continue reading

  • Productive in His Own Way

    I am going to be posting a series of articles I have published over the years.  Some are about Aidan, some talk about him with reference to Chinese philosophy, and one or two extend Chinese philosophy to other issues. Most… Continue reading