I follow all kinds of people (and some bots) on Twitter. I read all sorts of blogs and books. I rarely watch TV anymore but I know what happens there. I’m an information omnivore, so I keep a pulse on our culture. I hear the drone of one theme in our modern world: Success. I [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘life’
November 27, 2008
Thanksgiving 1951: Delayed Pilgrims
I was born in the short Summer of Love to parents who endured long Winters of Hate in madness-torn Hungary. My parents came to this country in 1951 after spending about seven years in a Dispaced Persons (DP) camp in Austria: a place with little hope, food, shelter, clothing, heat. Hungarians each, they lived through [...]
October 6, 2008
Zen and the Art of Thinking
It’s not as bad as you think. It’s better. It’s worse. What you think is a part of a larger picture. And the picture always changes. If you get stuck thinking about the same thing, you’ll miss the rest of the show.
Right now, a lot of people think things are bad. There’s a lot of [...]
September 26, 2008
A Bad and Meaningful Day
On a bad day, when one moment hits you hard, it’s easy for you to stretch the moment over the rest of the day. Our brains are probably wired that way.
I wonder how much we lose from bad days. The self-help crowd tells us to turn our dangers into opportunities. And I buy into that [...]
September 11, 2008
Seven Years: A Whole New Body Grown, A Resurrection
To You Who Died Seven Years Ago:
It’s gotten darker since you left us.
When the Towers fell in on themselves, into those two black holes, a part of us went with you down into the graves. I can’t say exactly what it was: a little light perhaps.
When the five-sided star of power burned among impossible flames, [...]
