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Posts from 2016

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The Magic Kingdom

On Counting … December 30th, 2016 @ 6:53 am PST

We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your […]

St. Simon's

On Walking … December 16th, 2016 @ 8:24 am PST

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” Sir Noël Coward

Times Square

On Privilege November 27th, 2016 @ 9:39 am PST

A human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep […]

The Pirates of Penzance

In Order Categorical November 18th, 2016 @ 7:31 am PST

Happy birthday to Sir W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan. There are no words to convey the joy we had cleaning the house on the weekends while dancing and singing The Pirates of Penzance with mom. She had a beautiful singing voice and knew the entire script for Angela Lansbury and Linda Ronstadt. (I played […]

On Action

On Action October 28th, 2016 @ 8:02 pm PDT

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough. Theodore Roosevelt

Margaret Thatcher

On Power … October 13th, 2016 @ 8:10 am PDT

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher

knolling

Negative Space October 7th, 2016 @ 8:54 am PDT

A beautiful poem

On Losing

On Losing October 2nd, 2016 @ 7:07 am PDT

Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than we are with winning. Winning is great, but it isn’t funny. Charles Schulz

gears

On Madness August 29th, 2016 @ 7:46 am PDT

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad

Golf, Scottsdale, AZ

Nikhedonia August 16th, 2016 @ 6:39 am PDT

nikhedonia, noun: The pleasure and satisfaction derived from the anticipation of success. A harmless indulgence, and a prudent one, too, since success comes only to some but nikhedonia is freely available to all. “Off to golf so early, darling? Hadn’t you better have your little nikhedonia session first? You know how badly you play when […]

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