Monthly Archives: November 2012

(The Value and Benefits of Literature in a Screen-Obsessed World) As public education undergoes a major paradigmic shift and reinvention with multiple agendas (e.g., e-media literacy, chamber of commerce interests–financial planning, making money as the ultimate goal in life) crowding the … Continue reading →

than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering you’re on the wrong wall.–Joseph Campbell (Also when you’re not getting back anything resembling the great amount you’re giving, sharing, and putting out.)

And then there are the crazy, absurd, unnecessary limits and limitations we place upon ourselves, never mind the ones we impose on others. Bad enough we do it to others without also doing it to ourselves.

(A ‘Personal Record’ to Age 25) To understand oneself–to know how one came to believe and value what one does–means an excavation of signposts or trail markings from the past. In my case, it means the literature I read in … Continue reading →

If ever one takes stock or forgets, one must remember you how lucky one was/is to have as much pleasure, engagement, connection, love, success, meaning, and purpose as one has had.

(a leftover think from 2011) To live large means to live free, imaginatively, creatively. Given the fact of nonstop change, process, the passing of time, contexts–and the limits and limitations these impose on the individual. Freedom is possible with such things … Continue reading →

Feeding Mr. Dowdy on E-5 the limp oatmeal dribbling from his uninterested mouth. Grey eyes dead he lives in another time another war. I shave his face its stubbled contours maps of memory and fear. The razor cuts unevenly– knicks his … Continue reading →

What things most urgently need attending to? What could/should be done while there is time, will, and opportunity? What missing pieces, if any, need attending to? What unfulfilled dreams or projects in process? ……………………. Questions of the simplest, most obvious … Continue reading →

“80% of life is just showing up.”–Woody Allen Much of whatever is remembered fondly and appreciated has to do with personal sacrifices, the care shown for others, and, often, the simple fact of being present and positive for others. Someone … Continue reading →

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.” ………………………………………….. (I wouldn’t change it a bit.)