A color without color in my travels It is interesting that the color white, which is an achromatic color meaning that it is a color without a color shines so vibrantly throughout the world. White is composed of a mixture of all frequencies of the light of the […]
Impure Inured Assured Endure Obscured Manicured Confuse Bemused Excused Vertigo Vertical Vertebral Inured, bemused and vertebral
Touching but not hugging I just returned from a business trip where I must have exchanged over 100 hugs. It was hug central. Which is what happens when you attend a conference for a field where everybody knows everybody and you are all supposedly overflowing with compassion. Note […]
It will all come crashing down one day Sitting pretty on top Looking down on the harried masses With your glass stained windows Sipping with abandon It will all come crashing down one day Yet your foundation is rubble Ready to take a tumble at the slightest quake […]
My playground heartbreak It had to happen. It just did because things are what they are. My son is an extremely happy child. Everyone notes that about him from random strangers in Japan, to his doctor, to his school principal. He is after all “the mayor.” We sit […]
The age of my discontent or Mid-life opportunities? There are some individuals out there that were born in the midst of a mid-life crisis. You know those people. I suppose one can say they were born with a Woody Allen soul. I am not one of those people […]
I Happily Unplugged My Bedroom Clock I cannot sleep with a light on unless I am dog-boned tired and exhausted. I love laying down and seeing darkness. Pitch black darkness. Somehow that is soothing to me. Of course, as a kid, I didn’t like that very much. In […]
She put on her pretty lavender dress and her expensive spiffed-up shoes. She was no Clarice Starling. She looked up at the windows which notably shouted that there are haves and have-nots. She was in-between. The lambs have stopped screaming but occasionally they let out a whimper […]
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” —Nietzsche Do you know that moment when Scooby Doo goes “Aaarug” (his puzzled grunt)? Or when Taylor Swift asks what “When you said you needed space”. Those are the moments when you do a double-take or wonder […]
A birthday and work escape in the heart of a volcano: The Big Island, Hawaii I had the immense honor (once in a lifetime) to celebrate my son’s seventh birthday. It is such a precious time period. At this point we have these odd conversations where he shows […]