“The deeper we try to dig into space, time, and the unknown, the closer we get to where we originally started.”― Rajesh, “Random Cosmos” I am showing my age. This reference is to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yes, for those of you who are up on...
“Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.” — John Fowles From an early age, I knew that numbers and formulas was not my path to success. I knew, however, that I was good at observing, interpreting, and quickly understanding the...
“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.” ― Mizuta Masahide 17th century Japanese poet and Samurai Part of this experience is a mind game. Difficult issues require planning, preparation, practice, and a solid mental mindset. In spite of what are...
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash, and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste,...
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it. —Winston Churchill In a conversation this week a colleague so eloquently described all of the confluences...
“Coming home is one of the most beautiful things.” — Andre Rieu Life is about shouldering our responsibilities, making our way through the day in a positive way and fielding the problems that are tossed in our direction. Life is a form of boot camp...
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” — Albert Einstein Physicist & Nobel Laureate Early in the first weeks of the Coronavirus Pandemic I floated the metaphor of Marathon as a way of describing the collective event that we are currently...
Is this a divine ‘Time Out’ to interrupt our frayingand help us to find our footing? Twelve weeks into my first ever pandemic I am conforming to new expectations, reinventing how I work and relate, and finding ways to be relevant and contributing. For the most part I...
“Don’t squander this. Let it make you more tender. Let it rewrite what matters. Let it bring you closer to all you love, to all you could lose. Let it bring you to your knees.” — Heather Lanier The World is changing around me while I shelter in place. For more than...
“You can leave camp but camp never seems to leave you.” I had a thought this morning that there are some lessons from summer camp that can apply to our current situation. I try to draw inspiration from anything I can in an attempt to keep my mindset positive...
“Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are,and give them a reason to follow you. Be sure to thank them, often,for caring enough to support you.They’re responsible for your success just as much as you are.” ― Simon Zingerman, “We...
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe,a part limited in time and space.He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelingas something separated from the rest,a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.This delusion is a kind of prison for...
“Community service gives me a valuable opportunity to walk into a different community that is less familiar to me but just as colorful and most importantly, in need.” — Caroline Landry Once I have attended to my home and work responsibilities during this pandemic, I...
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss As an homage to the book In Search of Excellence, which shifted our focus from the economic malaise of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, I would like to share...
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” ~ Marcus Aurelius Out of bad things good can come. This has been a theme of our human...
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. — Elizabeth Scott, “Perfect You” This is the last blog in The–Pandemic–as–a–Marathon series and I am circling back to ask myself what I have learned, what I will advance, and what I will be letting go of as I...
“Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a Mother.” Facebook has a function that shares the posts of previous years on the day that you posted them. I look forward to seeing what I was doing in the last years. It reminds me of...
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins During the 2020 COVID 19 crisis, I find myself really missing my mother. I yearn to hear her perspective; I miss having her as my...
“She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts.But because she continued on despite them.” ― Beau Taplin, “Unstoppable.” This pandemic presents a preponderance of opportunities for teachable moments. When we encounter something...
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.” ― Marianne Williamson I knew immediately that Miguel was a leader. I met Miguel...
“Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension” — Joshua Loth Liebman I could interview someone every day to find out what they are thinking and feeling about our current situation, how they are handling their responsibilities, and how they see...
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt After ten days of...
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstances to add a deeper meaning to his life. — Victor Frankl Neurologist, psychiatrist,...
The metaphor of our situation as a marathon remains with me. “Without having been able to prepare for this marathon, what strategies would you use to be in the race,survive the race, and finish?” ______________________________________________ I am not searching for...
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