You love oldies so you find a 60s station in your car and you sing along to the Fifth Dimension’s “Go Where You Wanna go. Do what you wanna do. With whomever you want to be with.” Have you got the lyrics right? You don’t care. You don’t remember such carefree days. You retired a while… Continue Reading
I am watching the Tony Awards. Host James Corden opens: “Hate will never win. Together we have to make sure of that.” The press calls it terrorism. Reporters note “mass casualties.” Fifty dead. More than 50 wounded. Near-by hospitals lock down. I weep at the news of one more shooting. One more massacre. Again. This time… Continue Reading
HERE IS MY LATEST Q and A CONTRIBUTION TO THE YUMMY NAKED FOOD MAGAZINE (New Authentic, Kind, Enlightened Diet) Q: Last night I went to a vegetarian restaurant. One friend had guacamole and corn chips: I worried about the salt and oil. Another friend ordered rice and mixed veggies: it seemed to me there was no… Continue Reading
When I teach skiing during college, the leaders of the ski school check “finished forms”. Instructors need to ski with impeccable precision to demonstrate perfectly for students. Every few weeks a videographer focuses singly on each of us as we make our way down an open slope. She follows and records every turn. We review… Continue Reading
Each year by January first, I’ve taken personal inventory, read through my writings of the last twelve months, scrapped much of what I’d recorded, shredded it and recycled the shreds. “That’s all past,” I say. I want to “be here now,” as meditation teacher Ram Dass taught. I also ask myself tough questions in the… Continue Reading
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