That’s thing about life, it doesn’t move in a linear fashion (ok well time does, maybe) but our life’s plan sure as heck doesn’t. It’s full of peaks and troughs and sometimes the peaks are…
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fear, desire, and hope
I’m curious to know where I am going next. Several timely quotes have presented themselves to me at a time when I am feeling transient. The first is from Steve Jobs: “Remembering I’ll be dead…
career advice from the Tao
In times of reflection I sometimes turn to the Tao Te Ching (the book of The Way), written by Lao-Tzu, for guidance. Over these past several days my thinking has taken several synchronistic turns and…
my life story in 100 words
Crashed into the world, a product of two teenagers playing house. Inner city, big city, watched a man get shot, nearly lost my eye. Dragged to the suburbs to make a better life. Life sucked….
naked ambition
I’ve never really considered the word ‘ambition,’ especially not as a way of describing myself as in ambitious or full of ambition. But yesterday, when I came across a definition of ambition and tried it…
off the beaten track
Picked up the new macbook today. I’ve had my eye on upgrading for a while, although I couldn’t decided whether to go with the MacBook Air or the MacBook. In the end price and lack…
against the grain
thinking through this past weekend and i realized that i have either been very present or very dreamy… on the drive down south this morning, i started remember all the moving pieces of my life…
soothsayer
An old family friend was visiting us. She looked at Ruth and said to me: “She looks good. She doesn’t look haggard, which means you are being good to her.” “What about me?’” I asked. …
where are you headed and how will you get there?
And what does it matter in the end, the prince and the pauper travel different roads to reach the same end, buried six feet beneath cold earth, food for the worms and a silent eternity.
the creep back
Life has been trying to creep back into my consciousness. Or least all those things that try to distract me and pass themselves off as life – like death and taxes. It seems that when…
happy new year
“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” (T.S. Eliot, The Gidding, V)
a letter to god
Dear God, I just realized it’s your son’s birthday next week. I thought it would be a good time to drop you a line. How long has it been since we last spoke? It’s got…
will of a man
I feel I am coming into my own at last in finding my what and my why. It is imperative that I keep the will up. As Mohammad Ali once said, “it’s not the skill…
grow or unplug
(1) If you want to accomplish something of significance, you have to put in the blood, sweat, and tears to do it. It is that simple. But as Morpheus says in The Matrix, ‘there is…
it’s the question that’s keeping me up all night
This story has fallen into my hands courteous of Paulo Coelho from his blog. I know he won’t mind me posting it here because he ends all his blog posts with: Welcome to Share with…
the early years
born Beth Israel Hospital, play time, almost lose my eye, eat sand, father away on a ship, man shot in front of me bleeding stripped to his underwear, orgies, broken plates, dead bird caused by…
found my head
I had a spell of enlightenment. I chased that down with a cold patch of dark madness. I found my head again, but now I am fighting boredom. I want peace, love, and harmony on…
friendships come and go
I heard the door close on three good friendships this week. As I listened to their footsteps stagger down the street, I paused to reflect as to why. Friendships, it seems to me, tend to…
please pass the game controls
I sit here in Starbucks. I watch the crowd of people make their way to work. Wouldn’t it be better if they, if we, were all headed to our own Woodstock to share love for…