I'M OFF TO THE SIDE UNCONSCIOUSLY OBSERVING, a familiar state. My eyes glance around the patio at the multitude of conversations taking place. Gathered around several tables with over twenty relatives, there’s nobody I look at and don’t respect, I don’t value, I don’t love....

26 November, 2019 /

WHEN I LOOK AT THE BOOKS on my shelf, it isn’t always the content of each book that comes to mind. I often imagine where I was when I read it, who I was, what I was going through. Books are powerful in this way. We can take them with us anywhere, a companion to help make sense of the world in which we live....

26 November, 2019 /

WHAT CONNECTS US all in this human experience? It isn’t our success. Success varies from person to person and means something different to each of us. We’re connected by the times of struggle. It’s the dark times that in the end, change who we are at our core....

26 November, 2019 /

THERE'S A FEELING we get when we see something beautiful in the world that really resonates with us. I notice these moments when traveling in old wonderful cities with a palpable history and culture. Every detail of the roads, the buildings, the style makes me think. I have boundless energy and want to discover everything I can about what makes these places distinct....

23 November, 2019 /

HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US how to be a part of a group, a system. We learn about civilizations, wars and armies. Besides the leaders who command these armies into battle, we rarely learn about what each person of that civilization believed in. Were they thinkers, dreamers, outcasts who challenged the norm? Surely. But they would die instead of being given the freedom to explore their own beliefs....

20 November, 2019 /