On Counting … December 30th, 2016 @ 6:53 am PDT
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 […]
On Walking … December 16th, 2016 @ 8:24 am PDT
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” Sir Noël Coward
On Privilege November 27th, 2016 @ 9:39 am PDT
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 […]
In Order Categorical November 18th, 2016 @ 7:31 am PDT
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 October 28th, 2016 @ 8:02 pm PDT
Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough. Theodore Roosevelt
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
Negative Space October 7th, 2016 @ 8:54 am PDT
A beautiful poem
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
On Madness August 29th, 2016 @ 7:46 am PDT
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad
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 […]
