Here’s the thing about perspective: it’s yours. From wherever you stand, literally or figuratively, what you see is exactly, entirely and only what you see. You might experience something in a way similar to another person, but only you are seeing whatever it is you are looking at in the way that you are seeing…
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Admitting mistakes is very difficult for many of us. Even people who are not perfectionists don’t tend to like standing up and saying, “well I really messed that up, oops.” It just doesn’t feel good to say that you were wrong, or you messed up, or that you should have done it the one way…
Lots of people are talking about talking. Or communication in the form of journalistic satire. A terrible thing happened, we can all agree on that, and thus the conversation got started about what is okay to say, and what should perhaps not be said, and whether or not not saying something because it is likely…
The transition from one year t the next is always a good time to reflect since it is a natural (even if invented) break. It would probably make more sense to have the new year start on the solstice since that is a clear transition point, but then it is rather pagan and I guess…
The worst grade I got in college was a D, objectively a bad grade. I still got credit for the class, but probably it would have been better if I had just dropped and started again. Up until the final paper I had a high A – it was an intro to American history lecture.…
My birthday is in a week. As happens with birthdays it means that I will be a year older. This year is not a particularly interesting number, I am settling into the decade that I joined last year. I am neither young or old, it is a middle number and so here I am in…
You can feel the change in the air and in the sun. The afternoons are warm but there is a different heat to the sun, there is a crispness to the morning fog that matches the first leaves that have fallen to the ground. All the children are back in school, there is a consistent rhythm…
I would like to say that I can spend an entire day at the museum, taking in the art/history/learning and whatnot and retain all of this information for later use in sounding smart and sophisticated in places where that is helpful. Probably at a cocktail party or sitting on the sidelines of my child’s sporting…
and rambling a bit on the nature of travel. Travel is a marvelous thing for many reasons, but should to be confused with ‘vacation.’ There may be overlap but there may not and one should not assume that because vacations often involve travel, travel will also involve a vacation. I travel for work a lot,…
“I’m older than I once was, younger than I’ll be that’s not unusual.” So says Paul Simon and it’s a simple truth at every moment of our lives. I live in an area where we have pushed the notion of being young well into middle age and so my sense of time and aging has…
Faith Works 