Impressions from a Jet Lagged Brain
Impressions From A Jet Lagged Brain “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.” Nikos Kazantzakis,...
Impressions From A Jet Lagged Brain “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.” Nikos Kazantzakis,...
Beginning in One Place and Finishing In Another – Part 2 “Ex clusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedo...
Beginning in One Place and Finishing In Another – Part 1 “W e will live with racism forever. But senses of self, senses o...
Books, Authors and Difficult Decisions "Y ou cannot open a book without learning something.” Confucius Books surround me. I...
The D Word “This wretched brain gave way and I became a wreck at random, driven without one glimpse of reason or heaven.” Th...
What I Think “In a time of universal deceit?telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell __ Whether it’s expand...
Rejection “The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put...
Little Bee By Chris Cleave “Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don’t tell...
Critique “I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and the...
The People Have Spoken “I always tried to explain that democracy is not perfect. But it gives you the chance to create your ...
Stressed! “It’s not stress that kills us, it is how we react to it.” Hans Selye, endocrinologist __ The year has begun. Wel...
Controversy “ I am continually fascinated at the difficultly people have in distinguishing what is controversial and what is...
What Violence Begets "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks...
Friends “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” Epictetus (Greek...
What a Tease! “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” Stephen K...
Why I Do It “ I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when...
Yukon – Part 4 “It would have saddened me to see dust and rust where once hummed a rousing town; hundreds where there were t...
Yukon – Part 3 He is a wise man who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epi...
Yukon – Part 2 But the Artic chart memorializes more than men of rank, power, blood or property. The real immortals, whose n...
Yukon – Part 1 It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert William Service, ...
Happy? If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama I have...
Lessons The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if ...
Gaza Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches up...
Crimes Against My Brother by David Adams Richards In the interest of full disclosure, I want to say that I have loved every ...