My recent A-fib event was an abrupt edge that my speeding body encountered on its way into the last third of my life. This particular third is my Wabi-Sabi. Wabi-Sabi is imperfection, brokenness, age and a disheveled appearance that the Japanese consider essential for beauty. I thought I had the answer. It was […]
Until May 29th, I thought I had it all handled. I prided myself on being able to handle stress. I achieved my successes on my own. I didn’t marry money or inherit it, I made it. I maintained my integrity through a 35-year career. I made choices that were contrary to becoming successful in […]
When something goes deeply wrong, the realization it forces is inevitably learned at the grave of loss. John O’Donohue What a spring. On my journey to save my tooth (which I did), I ended up with community acquired pneumonia and Atrial Fibrillation. This is my take on it, not the medical communities: it was a […]
I lie in bed in the mornings, awakened by the early spring light, thinking about faith and grace – not unusual I suppose for my age. I have had the good fortune to bear witness to friends and acquaintances lives over a forty-year period. It’s most striking with people I haven’t seen for a while […]
I was sick. I had a light case of pneumonia which is an oxymoron as I felt like hell had taken over my body; yet, I had waited almost five years to see Master Zhang and I wasn’t going to let hell hold me back. Getting to LA was another hell. The drive to Sacramento […]
Every morning for many years, after I make my coffee and feed the dogs, I turn on my iPad and read these papers or periodicals: NY Times, Washington Post, HuffPo, The Intercept, Politico, BuzzFeed news, Breitbart, Pro Publica, Slate, Vox and more. And then there are the monthly’s: The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Time Magazine and […]
In January or February, I am changing the focus of my blog. My remaining clients have asked me to stay as long as I can. I feel a responsibility to one particular client as she is becoming a lone voice in the political wilderness for fact-based reporting and truth rather than blithering punditry and second-guessing. […]
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is […]
