The daughter of a watchmaker reflects on lessons learned in connection to time and timepieces.
Philosopoetic Innovation Part Two: The Beauty of Doing
A warrior is blind when not training. I quickly fall into depression without proper foresight. In one of my darker moments, I looked at myself in the mirror one morning, and told myself I needed to make a choice. I needed to either be who I truly was, or die…
Sleeping with the Finches: Tales of the Songbird Mafia
About a month into my feeding operation, I got up one morning to find three fat little birds sitting in the platter at the base of my feeder. These were not my usual customers. They were wild and rough looking, and occupied my feeder like it was now their private hangout, like Tony Soprano’s gang sitting outside Satriale’s. These were bad, bad birds, and I dubbed them the Songbird Mafia.
The Love Letter
Legendary basketball coach John Wooden loved only one woman in his entire life, his wife Nellie. For more than two decades after Nellie died, he wrote a love letter to her each month on the anniversary of her death. This video of John Wooden shows a simple but profound man who found the real secret to a happy life. LOVE.
Make Sure You Come Over With an Empty Stomach!
Living in the multicultural society that we do, I am sure many of you have friends who are from India. Maybe most you already know about what I am going to explain in the next few paragraphs, but I feel it is compulsory to let those of you who don’t know that there are a […]
Tarmac Meditations #15 — Not Knowin’
A runner shares the stream of consciousness of his early morning thoughts.
Do “Looney” Cartoon Characters Show Signs of Mental Illness?
It’s a hotbed of psychopathology rivaling that of any daytime soap opera. These individuals cover the entire spectrum of mental illness as outlined by the psychiatrist’s bible, the so called DSM-IV (revised).
I am referring, of course, to the stable of unstable “Retro” cartoon characters to which Warner Brothers subjects our children on a regular basis.
Tarmac Meditations #14 — Coming Back
A runner reflects that it doesn’t matter how fast you are or how many times you fall, you just have to keep on coming back. That’s what makes the difference.
The Other Side of Me: Make Lemonade
After thinking that I was going insane, the truth was somehow comforting. At least I knew I wasn’t the crazy Mad Woman. In a strange way, everything started to make sense.
“What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?”
While most people were buying Anti-dandruff shampoo or Satnav kits or summer socks for a Fathers’ Day present, I was haring off to Finistere (Land’s End), in Brittany, to celebrate the Father of the Free French – Charles de Gaulle.
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