What do you want?

A rare and awkward question that many of us don’t hear for decades, especially when we are busy being all things, to all people, raising kids, earning money, and being the wife, daughter and friend we want to be. But there comes a point around middle age, sometimes...

We all lose something part 2

Recall, I was sharing an airport experience by way of a verbatim journal entry that is concluded below. …I had to catch my breath but still a tear escaped my eye and I tipped my head slightly, to speed up my ability to wipe it. “We all lose something,” I...

We all lose something, part 1

Reading the Cookie Thief again (poem by Valerie Cox, shared yesterday) reminded me of my own airport experiences. For a few years in a former company I spent a lot of time in airports, especially Atlanta and Baltimore. I used to laugh at the realization that I could...

The Cookie Thief

A poem by Valerie Cox, captures again the theme I have written about the last couple of days. It poignantly brings home the importance of perspective, looking inward and how assumptions and false narratives can lead us in a direction undesired. The Cookie Thief: by...

First, Look Inward

I’m thinking everyone has had some type of experience like I described on Amtrak’s quiet car yesterday. Quick recall: I was playing a training on the quiet car that was erroneously coming through my iPad AND my earbuds, and when I heard the extra feed thought it was...
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