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 […]
Shocking, unbelievable – tick, tock, tick, tock. Today it happened. It crept into my bones and joints a while ago creating extra attention to fingers and knees in the mornings but I denied the implications. Everyone who isn’t 70 says “oh, it’s just a number. You look great.” Maybe so – but I really don’t […]
It was late, nine-thirty pm east coast time. In my mind, it should have been dusk if not dark but below me, glowing like mid-day, the icy contours of Greenland awed me. Large expanses of white gave way to melting glaciers creating rivers heavy-laden with icebergs. I have the pictures to prove it but they […]
Einstein wondered “what if I rode a beam of light?” His “what if” changed how we perceive our world. Our class ranging in ages from 15 to 67 inhabited a world of metaphors and “what if’s” for three days and experienced how they could reimagine their world by understanding themselves a bit better. Tim and […]
