Starry Night

I have taught art history for years and admire the post-impressionist, Vincent van Gogh. I especially love Starry Night. I have seen Starry Night while it was on loan at the Art Institute in Chicago years ago. Van Gogh painted the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence from his hospital room in June of 1889. He struggled much of his life with a long list of medical and emotional problems. One of his major problems was his eyesight. Nonetheless, van Gogh paints a nighttime scene of the village while wrestling with his seeing issues.

While I never was in a sanatorium like van Gogh, I had a recent appointment with my cardiologist, Dr. Marchand. It was a routine checkup for high blood pressure. All was well with my heart. However, I asked him why I was so wound-up having just returned from Myanmar/Burma. He replied that it was due to my endorphins. I pressed him further about why my endorphins were up.

Dr. Marchand understood that I wanted to know. I am different than I was prior to going to Myanmar. He paused, looked directly into my eyes, and said, "You have seen the light." While our eyes remained locked with each other, he paused, and said nothing more. Once he knew that I had gotten his message, he told me that he would see me in six months. I will never forget that office visit with Dr. Marchand.

Like van Gogh, I was living but not seeing everything. Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, and I saw the light.

I See More Clearly... Thanks to Carl Sagan.

03/24/14

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08/1/22

A Lesson About Life… Don’t Fear Death…

07/24/22

Happy Birthday Snow You Are 13

07/22/22

My Place in the Universe I Don’t Want to be Lost in Space

07/15/22

Another Mantra of Mine Be a Storyteller

07/8/22

Alan Turing Thinking Outside the Box

07/6/22

Doing the Dance on Steroids And Promises to Keep

06/29/22

Juneteenth A Day to Remember

06/20/22

Miah Is the 21st Century Eppie A Hand Is Put Into Theirs….

06/17/22

There is a Teapot in Orbit Around the Sun… It Was Mentioned in Ancient Texts

06/15/22

The Trinity of Evil Monkeys See as Monkeys Do

06/10/22

“The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men….” Reset and Carry On

05/13/22

The Battle of the Alamo… Past, Present, and Future

05/11/22

I Love Teaching… Here in Myanmar or Anywhere

05/09/22

My Commencement Address... To the World

05/02/22

Grasping Reality While My Clock Is Ticking

04/29/22

A Backed-Up Sewer Created a Parable

04/27/22

Diversity Visas What’s That All About, Alfie?

04/24/22

Acclimating to the New World In Mt. Lebanon, Taunggyi, and Crown Point

04/20/22

The Oligarch Above All Oligarchs Czar Putin

04/18/22

I’m An American Oligarch…. Of Sorts

04/15/22

Heaven and Hell What’s It All About, Alfie

04/08/22

I Have Miles to Go Before I Sleep

04/04/22

Seeing the Future At Least Three Times

03/30/22

My Family in Myanmar: A Sequel to What’s It All About

03/28/22

Ginger and I What’s It All About and Why?

03/21/22

Ti Ti, the Teacher Of Her Classmates and Me

03/16/22

Two Views of the Ides of March One for Caesar and One for My Family

03/14/22

The Helter-Skelter Mindset1 Locally and Globally

03/09/22

My Great-Granddaughter A Younger Version of My Granddaughters

03/07/22

Two Military Leaders Parker and Lee

03/04/22

If Everything Around You Seems Dark… Look Again. You May Be the Light.

02/26/22

Putin’s Legacy Gilgamesh’s Lesson

02/23/22

History Is Repetitious Then and Now

02/21/22

My Personality Quirks… I Have Several

02/16/22

My Latest Himalayan Salt Lamp A Parable for Today

02/14/22

The Tale of My Foot Years Ago and Today

02/11/22

More Parallels Between Myanmar and America Aung San and Bobby Kennedy

02/07/22

Parallels Between Myanmar and America Even Though They Are On the Other Side of the World

02/04/22

My Dream of Diversity In the Footsteps of Bobby

02/02/22

Diversity Is the Answer But What Is the Question?

01/31/22

Kiev Then and Now

01/28/22

When I Become a Billionaire… A Jaguar SUV Will Be in My Garage

01/26/22

Two Countries Living in One World

01/24/22

A Sequel to My Dreamland Journey… To the Brighter Side of Life

01/21/22

My Dreamland During My Operation

01/19/22

Coming to America A Dream of Many

01/17/22

“Better To Reign in Hell… Than Serve in heaven.”

01/12/22

A Cancer, Too, Took Root But the Backstory Is More Important

01/10/22

Galileo Found Four Moons But the Backstory Is More Important

01/07/22

Beware of the Mongolian Death Worm In Both Mongolia and America

01/05/22

A Reason for Being… The Most Important Reason for My Being

12/31/21

Christmas: Past, Present, and Future

12/24/21

The Graduate… The Canine Version

12/22/21

Moh Moh’s Roles in Our Family: My Daughter and My Mother

12/06/21

I Love My Family With Some Caveats

12/03/21

Waking Up… To Getting Old

11/29/21

“The Moving Finger Writes” Another Teaching Moment

11/26/21

I Never Miss a Teaching Moment But Who Benefits

11/19/21

My Extended Family You Can See Her Painting.

11/15/21

I’m the Reincarnation of Bo Bo Gyi According to Fatty

11/12/21

Ginger and the Mask and Shot Mandates A Canine Teaching Moment

11/05/21

From a Ripple to a Raging Current Based Upon Reciprocity

11/03/21

A New Ripple And a Purposeful Life

10/27/21

Paying Homage… To Me

10/25/21

The Duality of Changing Times Change, and We Change

10/22/21

Having a Purposeful Life Another Sequel About Dreaming

10/20/21

Societal Dreaming Delayed but Not Dashed

10/18/21

Miss Independent Bo Bo Gyi’s Granddaughter

10/15/21

A Dream Delayed Or a Dream Dashed

10/13/21

We Need to Learn from History… Not Rewrite It.

10/11/21

My Takeaway From the Great Chicago Fire

10/08/21

What Ginger’s Dances Taught Me Despite My Dances

10/06/21

Ti Ti and Education Why Is Education Critical?

10/04/21

What’s All This About Women? “The Times They Are A-Changin’ Ever So Slowly”

10/01/21

I Successfully Survived an Electromyography At Least for the Time Being

09/29/21

A Ngal Lay Sent Me Pictures and a Video About Our Time Together

09/20/21

Revisiting Gilgamesh A Teaching Moment

09/17/21

My Great-Granddaughter… A Ngal Lay

09/15/21

The Dual Negativisms… Of Racism and Sexism

09/08/21

The Pros and Cons… Of Replicating Our Parents

09/06/21

“I’m Doing the Dance” The Title of Ti Ti’s Poem

09/03/21

Realizing the New Normal What’s All About, Alfie?

08/30/21

What Can We Learn from Art? The Answer Is….

08/18/21

Learning from Dancing Starlings… A Great Learning Moment for Us

08/09/21

It Is Time To Write Poetry Another Teaching Event

08/06/21

Sir Gawain, the Knight Doing What a Knight Does

08/01/21

What To Do When Your World Is Out of Control What I Learned from My Family

07/30/21

Ginger Doing the Dance And An Important Takeaway

07/28/21

A Follow-Up to Snow’s Email Another Teaching Moment

07/26/21

We Are Cave Men But What Is Our Purpose in Life?

07/23/21

How To Achieve Being Venerated, Wise, and Great In Two Steps

07/16/21

A Ngal Lay My Great-Granddaughter

07/14/21

Poets Both Past and Present Amanda Gorman and Sarah Kay

07/09/21

Resurrection I’m Alive Along with My Computer, and Ginger

07/07/21

More Apologies Expressed To My Physicians

06/21/21

What the Oldest Stars Taught Me… About Life

06/14/21

One More Comment For Ti Ti As She Journeys Down Her Yellow Brick Road

06/11/21

The Little One, A Part of My Family

06/09/21

Than, a Great Artist The Art of Playing the Hand Dealt You

06/07/21

Set Set Yo And a Little Child

06/04/21

Ti Ti is Sweet Seventeen Happy Birthday

06/02/21

Memorial Day 2021 It Is in Giving that We Get

05/31/21

One Year Hence Reincarnation of Gawain and the Fox

05/28/21

Learn and Become a Storyteller All You Need To Do Is To Travel

05/10/21

The History of Myanmar… Is Being Written Now

05/07/21

Trinity of Guts Or Cult of Chickens

05/05/21

Three Take-Aways From Denzel Washington’s Commencement Address

05/03/21

The Haunting Question Which Sir Launfal Are You?

04/30/21

He Is My Brother On This Pale Blue Dot

04/28/21

Problems Offer a Choice Either a Cul-de-sac or a Challenge

04/23/21

A Funny Thing Happened While on Zoom My Fourth La Danse Macabre

04/19/21

Learning from Collecting Written by a Collector of Treasures

04/16/21

The War of Northern Aggression Isn’t Over Yet

04/14/21

My Quest to Find Meaning Life My Search for My Holy Grail

04/07/21

Getting on the Same PageIn My Class and Our World

03/29/21

My Love of Teaching This Is An Example

03/26/21

What’s It All About Aldie My Haunting Question

03/19/21

A Tale of Two Countries And a Present-Day Theme and Variation of Life

03/03/21

What Makes Me Tick and Teach? No Pain, No Gain

03/01/21

The Pandas and My PoohAnd Other Followers of Gilgamesh

02/03/21

Who Is That Lady in Yellow?A 21st Century Eppie

02/01/21

Learning Is Three-Dimensional… But It Is Discovered On the Road

01/29/21

Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams

01/27/21

Finding ImmortalityGilgamesh and Ti Ti

01/22/21

Purposeful LivesOn Steroids

01/13/21

A Christmas Carol in 2020…It Is in Giving that We Get

12/25/20

Where Is a Martin Niemöller…When We Need an Honest Person?

12/23/20

Your Meaning of Being…What Is It?

12/14/20

Bobby Burns’ Message…For Ti Ti

11/23/20

It Was Four Years AgoAnd What a Difference Four Years Makes

11/02/20

The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me

10/26/20

On Deciphering the Truth…By Thinking

10/23/20

The Giving and GettingBoth Parties Benefit

10/21/20

Ti Ti Teaches a Myanmar MythTo Her Sister

10/19/20

Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today!

10/16/20

Damned If He Does, and Damned If He Doesn’t. On Being on the Horns of a Dilemma

10/12/20

The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet

10/09/20

Amazing Grace Or More of the Same Insanity

10/07/20

My Two Worlds…Affect My Life

10/05/20

This is Success in the MakingYou Heard It First from PaPa Al

09/30/20

This Is an AddendumTi Ti, the Bridge Builder

09/25/20

Masks Matter…To Some

09/16/20

Two PoemsBy Two Ladies

09/14/20

A Present Day Parable for AmericaIt Is All About Sharing

09/11/20

Coming Home to RoostKierkegaard, Mt. Lebanon, Dancing, and My Family

09/04/20

There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming

08/07/20

Focusing My Stream of ConsciousnessBy Watching a Movie

08/05/20

A Teaching MomentWhile Walking Ginger

07/31/20

Egoism vs AltruismThere is a Better Way

07/27/20

Ti TiMy Granddaughter and Poet Laurate

07/24/20

"Give Me a Place to Stand...And I Will Move the World.”

07/20/20

A Tribute to SnowMy Granddaughter in Myanmar

07/08/20

A Tribute to Ti Ti The Young Lady

07/06/20

“We See No White-Winged Angels Now…”But We See Little Children

07/01/20

Another of Santayana’s Teaching Moment Maybe We Will Learn This Time

06/24/20

Living in Two Worlds…Part 2The Utopian Time

06/17/20

Living in Two WorldsPart 1

06/15/20

Reflections on My Journey Down the Yellow Brick RoadOur Clocks Are Ticking

06/12/20

An Open-Letter to the WorldTimes They Are a-Changin'

06/05/20

Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers

06/01/20

Living in the New NormalOur New World Order

05/29/20

It Is All About FamilyAnd Who Makes Up Our Family

05/20/20

Our Reason for BeingDiscover It

05/18/20

Ti Ti…The Amazing Young Lady

04/29/20

Why I Love Inle LakeTwo Reasons

04/22/20

The Week That WasDance on with Determination

04/20/20

Plague DoctorThen and Now

04/06/20

Understanding Life as We Live ItSonata Pathétique

04/03/20

Regarding Dancing with CoronavirusCampbell’s Five Commandments

03/25/20

I Don’t Like FailingModus Operandi

03/13/20

Think Before You ActThen Dare Greatly

03/09/20

Circle of LifeDance On

03/06/20

“Let’s Get Going.”An Important Lesson of Life (FLASH: The lost video sound is back)

03/02/20

How Playing Scrabble Changed My LifeWho Would Have Thought?

02/28/20

Mr. ChipsAn Updated Version

02/26/20

Moh Moh’s Interview of Me

02/24/20

Than’s Interview of Me

02/17/20

Snowaka Eppie

02/14/20

Happy Birthday Fatty…An Incarnation of Eppie

02/12/20

Than Tun OoArtist and Friend

02/10/20

Seeing Yourself as Others See You…Which is More Clearly

02/07/20

The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series

01/29/20

Theseus and Me A Ball of String or Modafinil

10/02/19

Autotelic Vincent, Me, and Modafinil

09/27/19

Thoughts About Willie Nelson’s Song…. On the Road Again

08/14/19

Starry, Starry Night…. What Do You See?

08/12/19

My Next Adventure: The Die is Cast

08/02/19

My Family Escaped From the Jurassic Park in Myanmar

06/21/19

Family Who Is Your Family?

06/17/19

“Go Fly a Kite!” Franklin Did

06/10/19

Prometheus, Galileo, and Nietzsche Verses Zeus, God, and Nihilism

05/22/19

Nietzsche Apparently Read Thoreau But I Have Read Much of Both

05/17/19

Nietzsche, Pathétique, and No Pain, No Gain Part Two of One-Liners

05/15/19

Nietzsche Wanted Two Things in Life: Music and a Dancing God

05/13/19

Purpose of Our Being What’s It All About, Alfie

05/10/19

Carl Sagan The World Learned Much from Him

05/06/19

Pathétique A Way to Live Life

05/03/19

Wanderlust Travel with No Regret

05/01/19

Ti Ti and Oscar Wilde’s Advice No Excuses and No Regrets

04/19/19

Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Jacob Soboroff

04/15/19

Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Clarence Page

04/12/19

Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Rod Stewart

04/10/19

Scared! Seen as a Teaching Moment

04/08/19

It Is A Bridge Too Far Only If You Are a Coward

04/03/19

Coffin Bridge… Build What You Need

04/01/19

Vocation of An Old Man… Being a Bridge Builder

03/29/19

I Will Rage, Rage… On Behalf of 1250 Students and One Celestial Comet

03/25/19

The Purpose of the Universe Or My Window on the World

03/20/19

Ti Ti… A Remarkable Young Lady

03/18/19

Dealing with the Reaper By Coming Alive and Living

03/13/19

One Moment in Time Carpe Diem

03/04/19

Inferiority Complex Womb Envy vs. Penis Envy

02/25/19

The Second Law of Thermodynamics And Trump and Entropy

02/20/19

Tintern Abbey Viewed by Wordsworth and Turner

02/18/19

My Fistful of Meā Culpā… To Our President

02/15/19

I Made a Mistake… Imagine That

02/13/19

This Essay Is About Morphing Pelosi, Donald the Dumb, Pausch, Gandhi, and Me

02/11/19

Something to Dream About While Waiting for the IRS’s Approval

02/08/19

Light at the End of the Tunnel However, the Tunnel is an Illusion

02/06/19

The Value of Pain Can Produce Ultimate Bliss

02/04/19

A Very Brief History of Sexism in Science It All Started with a Blinking Neutron Star

02/01/19

Solution for the Wall Issue in Washington… Have Another Wall

01/30/19

This Essay Addresses Alfie What’s It All About?

01/28/19

Two Despicables Who Saw the Light Colson and Cohen

01/23/19

Pa Pa Al’s Grandfatherly Advice To Ti Ti Who Doesn’t Need It.

01/11/19

Reflections

01/09/19

Thanksgiving Celebration… In Nyaung Shwe

01/04/19

A New Year’s Eve With a New Resolution for the Coming Year

12/31/18

It’s All About Family I Agree with John Lewis

12/17/18

Reflections on The Magnificent Seven…

12/12/18

The Magnificent Seven… My Dream Team

12/07/18

Way Back Home… In America and Myanmar

11/28/18

I Celebrate Two Thanksgiving Days… And This Is Why

11/22/18

Building a Log Cabin You Are Really Smart; I’ll Tell My Brother

11/12/18

Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me

10/31/18

Donald the Dumb Should Have Taken Art History

10/26/18

Keep Calm And Things Seem to Work Out

10/24/18

Bette Davis Eyes… But They Are in Myanmar

10/19/18

Rhythm of My Heart Here and Abroad

10/03/18

Being a Young Turk… During the 20th Century

09/26/18

A Noble Person… Meets Another Noble Person

09/17/18

Hand of a Little Child… Ti Ti

09/12/18

McCain’s Life and Death The Life and Times of a Great American

09/10/18

Deep State Bob Woodward and Me

08/15/18

Be a Dreamer.... And Never Quit Dreaming.

08/10/18

Snow, the Virtuoso Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev

08/06/18

It Is In Giving That We Get Being Like Bobby

08/03/18

Parallels Between the Spider Woman and Me Money

07/27/18

Why Papa? Answering the Why Questions

07/27/18

The Ripple Effect… “…Can Sweep Down the Mightiest Walls.”

07/23/18

Eppie… Then and Now

07/20/18

Ti Ti’s Birthday Present On Her 14th Birthday

07/16/18

It’s All Begins with Making My Bed— Which Ginger Unmakes

07/13/18

The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex

07/11/18

If I Fail… I Will While Daring Greatly

07/06/18

Possible Explanations of Death A Personal Apocalypse

06/29/18

Teach Your Children Well Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You….

06/22/18

Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty Having Fun Without PaPa Al

06/20/18

Stephen Hawking Left Us a Great Deal We Need To Follow Our Science Professor

06/15/18

Clarity About Dancing Being Arthur Murray in the Real World

06/11/18

The Goddess Ganga The Transcendence of Reality

06/06/18

Explaining Doing the Dance… Man, the Lights Are Bright

05/23/18

Who Are Your Mentors? Here Are Mine

05/21/18

Ten Years and Counting What a Difference a Dance Makes

05/18/18

758 Horns of a Dilemma The House of Cards

05/16/18

Forrester and Jamal You and I

05/11/18

Projection Lock Him Up

05/07/18

Moh Moh, Bobby, and Me…. All Dreamers

04/30/18

A Wrinkle in Time Thinking Outside the Box

04/25/18

Dear PaPa Al..... Dear Ti Ti

04/16/18

Frederick Douglass A Better Man Than I

04/13/18

Bobby’s Suggestion About My Problems… A School in Taunggyi, Myanmar

04/06/18

Pictures from My Myanmar Family Pictures…Part II

03/23/18

Marner and Eppie Me and the Girls

03/16/18

I Want to Have My Last Lecture at Harvard On March 9, 2043

03/09/18

The Question Is… How Will You Be Remembered?

02/26/18

An Age of Revolution If We But Know What To Do With It

02/16/18

The Widow’s Mite And the Rich Donald the Dumb

02/09/18

The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life

02/07/18

The Art of Asking Questions… About Which You Know the Answers

02/05/18

Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me We Are the Incarnations of Bobby

01/31/18

I Failed For the Time Being

01/26/18

What I Learned In High School Applies To This Moment In Time

01/24/18

Lesson Learned About Dreaming I Learned from Bobby

01/22/18

We Are Family Versus Racism

01/19/18

Birthdays and Death-Days The Dilemma

01/10/18

Another Breakfast with My Shrink Dealing with Dreaming

01/01/18

Dreaming Dreams that Never Were... Asking Why Not.

12/15/17

Doing the Dance... Fathoming the Unfathomable

12/11/17

Confucius Said... But We Haven’t Listened

12/04/17

The Big Fib: "I'm, like, a really smart person."

11/27/17

The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote

11/10/17

The Reason Behind... Everything

11/08/17

Live in the Moment... Plan for the Future

10/20/17

Free To Be Me— A Driven Dancer

10/11/17

What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal

10/11/17

Ginger and Santayana Remember the Past

10/09/17

Lawrence of Arabia One of My Mentors

10/06/17

Ti Ti A Reason for Being

10/02/17

Ginger and I Promises To Keep and Miles To Go Before We Sleep

09/29/17

Ginger AKA Longshanks

09/27/17

The Double-Axe A Symbol of My Identity

09/15/17

I’m On the Road Again But Why?

09/08/17

The Hollow Man Who Wears Long Ties

09/04/17

When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do?

09/01/17

Minnows or Manhood Or Scent of a Woman....

08/28/17

Akhenaten... My Mentor

08/25/17

Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes

08/21/17

“Better Angels of Our Nature” In America, Mexico, and Burma

08/19/17

Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb— The President of Trump University

08/18/17

Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship

08/04/17

Macbeth... Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt

08/02/17

The Pentagon Papers... Then and Now

07/31/17

Oppie The Scientist and the Philosopher

07/17/17

Just Drop Me Off And Ginger’s Toy Dog

07/14/17

“Close to Treason” It Is Close to Stupid but Not Treason.

07/12/17

Rage, Rage... Against the Pissing Pug

07/10/17

Henry II and Thomas Becket Then and Now

07/07/17

What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe

07/05/17

Impeachment of Trump And the Tower of Babel

06/30/17

Donald the Dumb’s Dilemma Falling from Great Heights

06/21/17

Teaching Donald the Dumb There Is No Happiness Where There Is No Wisdom

06/16/17

The Ides of June And Religious Ties

06/14/17

Learning, the Unquenchable Drive Travel and Learn

06/07/17

The Hauntings of Hachikō and Bobby… And the Haunting of My Gingers

05/24/17

Ginger’s Predecessors And My Domesticated Carnivore

05/19/17

Three Blind Mice… And Bloody Mary

05/08/17

Do Not Going Gently Into That Good Night I Will Rage

05/05/17

Brexit vs Scoxit The Death Blow to the British Empire

05/01/17

The Help Déjá Vu

04/17/17

Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

04/14/17

The Amazing Process Called Learning Thinking Outside the Box

04/05/17

Chick Magnet And the Hauntings

03/31/17

The Hauntings About Bobby and the Gingers

03/27/17

On Riding to Samara Then and Now....

03/10/17

Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis

03/06/17

What Donald the Dumb is Missing in Life? Eppie

03/01/17

Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him!

02/17/17

Thus Spoke Dr. Marchand... And Ginger

02/15/17

Ginger, Socks, and Poe Finding Lenore....

02/13/17

The Value of Travel: Education

01/13/17

A Lesson of Life Learned from a Cockroach

01/04/17

The Great Value of the Philosophers' Stone... To Me

12/21/16

Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots

12/16/16

Teach Your Children, Part 2 But When?

12/12/16

Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve

12/05/16

Deplorable... Defining the Definition

11/25/16

Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73

11/18/16

Tom Brokaw... Another Dancer

11/16/16

On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy

11/07/16

Dostoyevsky Danced with Death As a Result, Became a Great Writer.

11/02/16

Teach Your Children... To Dream

10/28/16

Resurrecting Dashed Dreams By Continuing to Dream

10/17/16

Himmler and His Quest for the Holy Grail Remember the Past

10/05/16

Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up

09/26/16

The Fighting Téméraire Explained My Nostalgia to Me

09/21/16

Why Do I Care? More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care?

09/16/16

Confucius Say, "Petty Man Understands Profit"

09/14/16

Rediscovering the Past... Eleanor Roosevelt

08/31/16

The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha

08/29/16

Trying and Failing... Is Better than Failing without Trying

08/26/16

Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams

08/19/16

The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death

08/12/16

We Must Address Conservativism... For Two Essential Reasons

08/05/16

The Value of Giving Gifts... To Young Children

08/01/16

Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us.

07/29/16

The Queen's Haunting... Bohemian Rhapsody

07/27/16

We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness

07/18/16

My Sherpa Statue Spoke A Valuable Time Spent Listening

06/17/16

The 5-Things Test Seeing Yourself as Others See You

06/15/16

The Angel Spoke... And I Listened.

06/10/16

The Value of My Hauntings.... It Forces the Issues

06/03/16

Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings

05/06/16

The Third Dance Apparently Was a Misstep

04/27/16

How to be Smarter Than We Think We Are

04/18/16

I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha

04/15/16

Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth

04/01/16

On Seeing the Light Chuck, Paul, and Me

03/04/16

Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely

02/26/16

Grave or No Grave That is the Question

02/22/16

Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely

02/19/16

Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand

02/15/16

The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas

02/12/16

Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest

01/22/16

"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct

01/15/16

The Little Match Girl And The Golden Statue

01/11/16

The Very Strange Year of 2008 A Year to Remember

01/08/16

The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings

01/06/16

I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me

12/04/15

Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up

11/27/15

What a Feeling And It Is a Great Feeling

11/20/15

Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question

11/16/15

Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well... And He Knows Life Well Also

11/2/15

Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True

10/19/15

It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday

10/09/15

The Mahogany Bench A Place for Dreaming....

10/07/15

A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience

09/21/15

Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age

09/18/15

Agnes Majors in the Minors A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond

09/04/15

The Value of Standing on Desks Allows One to See the World Clearly

08/17/15

Discovery of Terracotta Warriors... And Nessie

08/14/15

A Man with a Mission... Sinking a German U-boat

08/12/15

Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa

08/03/15

Darwin, van Gogh, and Lindbergh's Gifts For Owen on His Third Birthday

07/20/15

What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, Which I Finally Fully Understand

07/10/15

Career Opportunity... Being a Gladiator

06/19/15

Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts

05/08/15

How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning

04/13/15

Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy

02/13/15

Ozone to Ferguson A Journey That Never Seems To End

01/05/15

It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times....

01/01/15

A Hand Is Put Into Theirs... And the Hand May Be a Little Child's

12/29/14

What Einstein Taught Me About Riding a Bike ...Keep Moving

12/22/14

Serendipity... Finding Without Looking

12/12/14

A Fool with a Plan... Is Better Than a Genius with No Plan.

11/21/14

Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 "I Never Died," Says He.

11/19/14

Death is the Best Invention of Life Breathing Is Not Living

11/14/14

Seeing When You Think You See... The Difference is Dazzling.

10/31/14

A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great "Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal."

10/17/14

On Seeing the Light...part II And I Thought that I Had Seen the Light

10/10/14

My Dots in Life Get Connected With the Singing of Pete Seeger

10/06/14

Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot

09/14/14

Darkest Before Dawn A Logical Disconnect that Is True

08/15/14

Come Alive... Before You Die.

07/24/14

Orwell and Scottish Independence Or Smell the Heather and Vote for Independence

07/18/14

Burma-Shave... And Seeing the Light

07/07/14

The Chilling Reality of Global Warming Where Does Lying Get Politicians and the Rest of Us?

06/28/14

Moravec Evolution or the 21st Century Scopes Trial

06/21/14

Old Men Should Plant Trees... And They Should Be Planted Now.

06/16/14

Connecting the Dots With Jack and Owen Teaching Them To Be Steve Jobs-esque

06/14/14

Jack and Owen Novice 21st Century Johnny Appleseeds

06/01/14

Right-Brain Pain and Gain... Getting Organized After Seeing the Light

05/21/14

Leaving a Legacy... A Concern of a 71-Year Old.

05/18/14

The Cosmic Calendar ...and Our Importance on the Pale Blue Dot

05/15/14

Orwell and Kipling and the Battle of Burma Or Why I Care

05/12/14

Advantages of Growing Old ...You Will Not Be Here in the 22nd Century

05/05/14

"Hang a Lantern on Your Problems..." So All Can See.

04/27/14

One of the Advantages of Being Right-Brain: Finding Another Prison.

04/24/14

Good Trip / Bad Trip ...the Great Benefits of Bad Trips

04/21/14

Faulkner's Lesson of Life... Even When the Last Ding-dong of Doom has Clanged.

04/17/14

On Seeing the Light... More Clearly

03/28/14

The Value of Travel... Or Learning About Myanmar.

03/07/14

The Two Ladies: Parallels between the Ukraine and Myanmar

03/01/14

The Blessing and the Curse of the Internet ...Everyone Will Have a Saved Memory

02/20/14

I Have Seen the Light... Thanks to Myanmar and Dr. Marchand

01/28/14