It has been and continues to be a truly devastating time in Los Angeles. The news can sometimes be hyperbolic and distorted, but this time the collars and cuffs match. People have lost their homes and so much more and it’s not done. Like most horrific situations, you want some light at the end of…
“A long December and there’s reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last” -Counting Crows It is the closing of the year as we pass from one time to another. It has been a year filled with challenges and significant loss and uncertainty and yet here we are. Here we are…
Bono said in his 2001 Harvard Commencement Address, “What does it say about a singer who needs 20,000 people screaming his name to feel good about themselves?” We all have different criteria to feel good about ourselves. Maybe it’s not 20,000 people, but a few people, or at least the ability to be seen by…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of time but mostly, it was The Times. Grief is the cognitive, emotional and organic ability to accept what is. Suffering is the resistance to what is. Finding our way through is different than finding our way out. And resilience is our essence, our nature.…
People are either ACTING OUTFREAKING OUTSPEAKING OUTbut few are REACHING OUTThe basic narrative from politicians are either syrupy positive or apocalyptic negative,but the real global lament is “Are we going to be ok?”High Anxiety is the cultural motif- different times, different problems, technology alwaysushering in advancements and the negative consequence for those advancements.We are always being eaten…
I have never been known for my humility, more for my arrogance. Age and desire have been trying to temper that, at the same time I believe that I have a good heart. Can those two things coexist and live side by side aiding one another? Seemingly they have. The presumptions have allowed for discernment…
Everything starts as a concept. Some generic precepts that you have ideas about, interests in, desirea to explore. But those concepts don’t become real until you move to action-until you commit. Throw your hat over the wall and then follow it. I just landed from a 30 hour reentry from Zambia. Four planes ranging in…
Staying relevant is a full time job. So many subcultures, so many distractions, so many balls to keep in the air.As a baby boomer (that term is usually accompanied with a look of disgust) I am vilified as the violator of the planet.Hey, maybe warranted.Keeping up with language and behavior is daunting, and practicing terms so they…
There are all kinds of documented testimonials about how the Heart had to bypass all kinds of logic/geometry/physics in order to make something extraordinary happen…There is the science and the controversies about what is the physical controlling factor in the human body. Is it the brain? Is it the heart? Depends on how you are…
The presidential debates came as no surprise. The fact that so many political pundits were surprised, is in fact the most disturbing part of it all. I feel sorry for the candidates. I feel sad for them. I don’t think that’s the feeling you want in your presidential candidates. To put Joe Biden in that…