There is that story where everyone throws their own crap into the communal pile of crap and, given the opportunity to trade in your own crap for someone elses, you will usually pick up where you left off with your own troubles. Eventually I suppose we find some level of acceptance for what we’ve lived… Continue reading Gratitude and Love

It’s not the things that keep you up at night that actually end up derailing you. It’s the car accident on a random Tuesday, the phone call from an out of state hospital on a Saturday night, or the edges of a headache that hit on a Sunday afternoon while you’re out playing trivia with… Continue reading Note to self: Worry less. Live more.

I’ve been on an adventure for the past week, though not necessarily one I would have chosen. And yet, the gifts I was given I wouldn’t trade: Amazing nurses, a beautiful caregiver from Sudan, fantastic medical staff and surgeons, sweet and kind sanitation staff, friends and family from far and near who reached out, prayed… Continue reading I wonder if Picasso had a tumor on his pituitary gland?

I think perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of living in this particular moment is the crystal clarity of our view of others.  We make assumptions about people based on our limited knowledge. Friend, co-worker, family, admired acquaintance, we see what we want to see.  But there is that saying that when someone shows… Continue reading The benevolence of power

Like many people I know and likely millions whom I don’t know, this has been an exhausting few weeks. Watching a country you’ve cherished - in great part for its ability to grow in terms of policy and law towards a more egalitarian space - go back 75 years in a few weeks is beyond… Continue reading Somebody might need to hear this today