Monthly Archives: January 2021

What’s the point in rehashing the past, telling my stories once I’ve moved past them? Why am I bothering to reexamine painful periods in my life, what’s to be gained? “Telling your story is a participatory act. It’s an act … Continue reading →

Here’s a thought to consider… “I believe those who sink from prosperity to poverty probably come, in the process, to understand what the world is like.”– Lu Hsun, Chinese writer, 1881-1936 I didn’t sink from prosperity, but I did grow … Continue reading →

01-21-2021 We’re well past the Solstice, yet still looking for the return of the Light. What dark days this winter has brought to American dreams and ideals. Across the arc of history, the change of seasons has come and gone … Continue reading →

I am willing to make mistakes. Life is a process of growth, which requires doing things you’ve never done before, things that push up against the boundaries of what you don’t know, which can lead to results that come to … Continue reading →

What do I want in the New Year? I’m a little late getting started. Here it is January 12th, 2021, a date when many people have already given up on their New Year’s resolutions, and I haven’t even articulated mine. … Continue reading →

The exercise is to write on stillness, use the color blue, and include a specific bird – with a time limit of 7 minutes. This is what I wrote: My heart is dark. Full of pain. Yet the sky is … Continue reading →

“In those days all heads of business firms adopted a guarded kind of double talk, commonly expressed in low, muffled tones, because nobody knew what was going to happen and nobody understood what had. Big business had been frightened by … Continue reading →