Waiting To Exhale
You know the saying? ‘All good things come to those who wait.’ It opposes another saying. ‘Time waits for no man.’ While the wise sees the value of patience, waiting can be a trap. In some movies, there is a Big Moment that is life-changing …
A Second Look At The Rear View Mirror
It happens to the best of us. This story is told by a friend. He was driving at what was considered an acceptable speed on the highway. Out of the blue, a car behind him horned. And horned repeatedly. From his rear view mirror, he …
The Start Of A Second Act
Today, a not so sunny Sunday, is the last day of June. It has been months since I posted on this blog. My last post was in January. At a time when I was expectant, as I am always expectant in the first month of …
Looking Fear In The Eye
I have not had the courage to write about fear. Do I know enough? What is the thing I most fear in life? I am aware of some of my fears. I think my awareness has heightened in recent years when some security blankets were …
Always Believe That Something Wonderful Is About To Happen
This morning, as I was leaving for work, I happened to turn around and saw how the morning light fell onto the yellow flowers in the living room. Everything else in the room seemed to fade into black and white. It was an amazing sight …
‘Let Me Tell You About The Very Rich’
“Let me tell you about the very rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, buttonholing the reader in his short story ‘The Rich Boy’. “They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where …
Golden Harvest
Today we enjoyed a slice of country living on a Sunday afternoon. After 6 years, we ate the fruits of one of the two coconut trees we planted. We plucked 8 coconuts in all. Lucy and Richard, my brother-in-law who planted the coconut trees when …
Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
Steve Jobs died several hours ago. There is a simple acknowledgement on my Apple desktop. Steve Jobs 1955-2011. We all expected this. When I read the news this morning on my iphone, I didn’t know what I was feeling. We don’t know this man. Yet …
Meet Me In The Stairwell
You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news on September 11, 2001. Neither will I. I was on the 110th floor in a smoke-filled room with a man who called his wife to say “Good-Bye.” …
Daniel Yun Has Left The Building
Walking down the stairs, getting into the car, driving out of the Radio Gate, the feeling was – so this is it! No strong feelings. The last few weeks were all pretty routine. Farewell lunches, shaking hands, well wishes and a lot of emails. Planning, …