Despite his violence and selfishness, I loved my dad. I always have. However, that love required dexterous skills. My love for him was filled with posturing, distance, the ability to entertain, and to make certain that I never put any unnecessary strain on him. My dad was a child and as long as you remembered…
How to stay expressed-How to stay true-How to stay real in a world that has you checkmated at every turn. The world is culturally offended combined with a good dash of mentally arrested and unleased violence. Victimized and Gaslighted. Uncertain and yet outspoken. Anxious and depressed. Entitled and talentless. Gone from a Meritocracy to Moronacracy.…
We live in a complex world where the requirement of learning new languages is coming at us at light speed. Whether the language is that of social media, AI, CRYPTO or current vernacular. And that’s while having to keep all your other commitments afloat. It’s not a matter of creative learning, it’s a matter of…
The pandemic has issued in a whole new set of rules and structures. Breaking old paradigms and offering in new ways of doing business and new business’. It retired so many business expenses and also retired so many business’. In the wake of every breakdown new initiatives emerge and old ones are left like husks…
Learning from the past, standing in the present and pointing to the future….The trifecta of optimal human development.We live in conclusions and extremes where low to medium to high grade threats are as familiar as one’s morning coffee.It makes it difficult to learn- to regale- to plan and any of these would be optimum but…
We all wake up and go to sleep differently. We all sleep differently depending on age and what is happening in one’s life. Are you more or less disturbed? Are we more or less anxious? Are we more or less drugged to ensure a good night’s rest? Sleep is very much a private affair, even though…
I grew up with the Beatles. I was 12 years old when I was first introduced to them. Probably better said they grew me up. The Beatles, like so many of us, turned my life upside down and started me on a path that was forged in love, possibility, truth and heartbreak. I had an inkling…
We all need direction and support. The form of that support and guidance might take many forms. Sometimes it’s a gentle hand, sometimes it’s a mighty shove. We are not always comfortable with how the support comes and we usually have a preference with how it’s delivered, but sometimes the very thing we need is…
We are back out-released from the stranglehold of Covid. More emotionally and structurally, as Covid and every other virus is still very real and persistent. Covid is more of an integrated part of our lives, like paying taxes. We adapt. We go on, maybe not with as much verve, but everyday we get up and…
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” -Donald Trump Trump said this in 2016 and he wasn’t wrong. Here we are 7 years later, spending millions of dollars on trying to prove his guilt and finding some way of convicting him, and this again, is…