"People seek retreats for themselves in the country, by the sea, or in the mountains. You are very much...
Think about it from the other person’s perspective
"When your sparring partner scratches or head-butts you, you don't then make a show of it, or protest, or...
What Expensive Things Cost
"If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind...
Cultivate Indifference
"My reasoned choice is as Indifferent to the reasoned choice of my neighbor, as to his breath and body....
Wycliffe Gordon
Did something very cool last night. Our Airbnb neighbors, Ronnie and Donna, invited us to listen to Jazz in...
Team Israel
I have always been on team Israel. Ever since I was a teenager. I will remain on team Israel,...
The Center will Hold
While on my walk with Teddi, I met a Romanian expatriate who fled the the dictator Ceausescu in the...
Reduce Wants, Increase Happiness
"Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you,...
At least Churchill was confident
America is rolling the dice big time right now. Most of her citizens are clueless about the ramifications of...
Watch Over Your Perceptions
"Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness...
Pull down the shades – Let’s assume we’re moving.
I remember reading an old Soviet joke in Hedrick Smith's book The Russians (I think), that summed up the...
White dog sure has good taste
I really need to explore the reason for the depth of feeling I have toward Teddi. There is only...