Re-posted from Zeteo. Click for pdf. 1 I’m just waking up. News radio. Listening for the weather. The solemn voice of a commentator: . . . what we’re dealing with . . . dedicated, well-armed sociopaths who’ll stop at nothing… Read More ›
Denial the American Way
Delusion
A woman in her forties told me that, from the time she was 8 years old, her father had been telling her that she was deluded. Even if this memory itself is a delusion, we can feel for this person… Read More ›
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long
A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long Midsummer Night’s Dream There comes a point in some vigorous… Read More ›
The Power of Positive Thinking
We expect too much of the dishonest, the unreliable and the lazy. They have their hands full accusing others of being dishonest, unreliable and lazy. If the “is” is intolerable, you’re left with the “is not.” With science we scaffold… Read More ›
News from the front lines
[Click for pdf] (1) My son, now 12, has a problem. He loves to compete, he loves to play sports, he loves being part of teams, and his world offers plenty of opportunities to do these things. But these opportunities… Read More ›
On the greatness of other people
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 April 2013 The last sentences on the last page of the May Harvard Business Review are the following lines from Maya Angelou, in answer to a question from the Review about what makes a leader great: A leader… Read More ›
Lunch Poem (with such apologies as may be due to Frank O’Hara and “The Day Lady Died”)
POEM July 2009 My office is being moved, I’m hungry, my ankle hurts Bicycling down Second Avenue approaching 34th Street I see the T-shirted backsides of a couple Not very athletic looking backsides, let’s say Matching dark blue Yankee… Read More ›
