MIRACLE: a product of talent, skill, resources, and dedication that all come together in one seminal moment. The most important part of that description is DEDICATION. You can develop skill, you can find mentors, but it’s the power of routine, the day-in, day-out practice, that makes those skills, talents, and miracles show up. There are…
The cultural pull when fear and concern are at an extreme high is to withdraw, to isolate, to hold back. Entitlement and hair-trigger behavior are at an all-time high, regardless of your circumstances. What is there to do? To be generous, to be kind, to look for where you can help. We all have different…
Looking for a moment of silence. A place to reside where less is more and my needs outweigh my wants. Where I can think straight, get my bearings, and slow all this down. There are those outliers who are off the grid, but that doesn’t seem possible, certainly not probable, and not really desirable. The best…
It’s curious how one person driving a Porsche Carrera looks cool, and another looks like a dick. Brad Pitt eating all the time in every movie – looks cool. Someone else does the same, and it looks gluttonous. Ted Danson – no commentary about his toupee – actually, people think that’s his real hair. What…
I think it’s a mistake to look for hope outside of oneself. One day, the house smells of fresh bread— The next, of smoke and blood. That used to be the context—a smart narrative that gives one perspective and insight into the volatility of the human condition. Great literary quotes and passages stand the test…
We mostly speak up where we have nothing to say and stay silent where we might have some real impact. We cover our faces in shame and apologize when we are vulnerable, but we are fully animated and puff out our chests when we are enraged. You would think it would be the other way…
There is a natural tendency to look back and LONG for a time that no longer exists. We have a savant ability to revise history, to revise times, so it heightens the distortion of current times. There is a nostalgic piece of longing for more of a halcyon time and there is some cloak of…
In these very uncertain times, it’s difficult to find sustainable inspiration, long term possibilities. And yet we keep looking- it’s a little bit like having lost your keys but you keep going back to the same location hoping that they will have miraculously shown up. It’s not easy understanding what is bankrupt and no longer…
I have lost four of my closest friends in the last few years, the fourth being George our dog. Loss is inevitable, it’s the only thing that is guaranteed. The when and the how of it are up for grabs, but the inevitability of loss is certain. Many of us are defined by our losses,…
There are lessons we forget especially in a time of crisis. We regress to unfavorable behaviors and introduce actions that are not in our best interest. It’s part of the human design, to withdraw and/or to act impulsively in times of threat. A lesson that I have integrated into my life is to act thoughtfully…