I wanted to build a house
Growing up, I wanted to build a house. Not just the requisite tree house or small play shed. But a real house to live in.
I have no idea where the idea came from.
Life purpose
We’re all immigrants
We’re born. Somewhere. A geographic location. Then we move. Sometimes across a border. We become immigrants.
The greatest threat: External or internal?
It’s far less likely that some foreign terrorist is going to come blow up my house or business than that I will do something myself to derail and mess it up.
Of pinpricks and a Milky Way
How often do you stop and look up at the sky at night? Quite possibly not that often. Because we tend to be in a hurry to get home. It’s dark. And there’s nothing to see up there anyway. Except there is …
Everything was better before — and the more before the better
“The good old days.” “I miss the old days.” “Life was simpler then.”
We look/think/dream back a few decades and see a time in the rearview mirror when the world was in ever so much better shape.
I wasn’t there — dealing with death and dying
A person is dying. Family gathered around for that last, meaningful goodbye.
Except that’s not always how it happens. We may not be there. Then what?
9 observations about change
It was a time of change. It was a time of keeping things the same.
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
Welcome to serendipity
Happy accidents. Chance encounters or events that lead to things we couldn’t have imagined.
“Serendipity is the faculty of finding things we did not know we were looking for.” — Glauco Ortolano
The old man and the kid
What do an old man, an 18-year-old guy and live broadcast television have to do with how to live life?
