Imagine you have the power to change how the world works. Perhaps not the entire world. Maybe only your world and the worlds of those you are close to. Maybe more. Imagine you see what is possible, when others only see what exists in the moment. Imagine...
Read MoreIn his recent Substack article, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut lays out a series of mostly sobering predictions about artificial intelligence and its likely impact on our lives. The article is entitled, In our scramble to win the AI race against China, we risk losing...
Read More... But, what about the bird? (v.2) Note: In March 2016, 6 months before the presidential election, I published the first version of this article. Now, 8 years later, the topic is even more pressing, even more distressing. I have made several changes to make it...
Read MoreThe Power of Authenticity in Relationships: How Vulnerability Leads to Trust and Intimacy Authenticity. There isn’t much of it out there these days. Maybe there is among the animals who don’t know anything else. They never learned how to fake it. Increasingly, we humans are faced...
Read MoreWhat is my message? is a question that has an out-sized impact on our lives, even when we aren’t aware of it....
Read MoreSometimes, all of this suffering gets to me, yet I am powerless to alleviate it. It’s too much. Too big. Too far away. Still, to do nothing isn’t an option....
Read MoreA friend of mine recently sent me this LinkedIn post by someone named David Reed. Actually, it’s not a post; it’s a meditation on mortality. But more. It is a meditation on life. The power and grace of his words startled me. I wondered whether...
Read MoreWe live in a world informed by the goals we set for ourselves. To be an A student. To learn how to make world-beating Italian food. To finish writing that children’s book. To make the varsity tennis team. To be able to play guitar with...
Read More“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.” These words from George Steiner, a leading, French-born American literary critic, struck me as perfectly fitting for how we live today. Or don’t. We live in chaotic times that ceaselessly demand our attention in...
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