September 11, 2009…and life goes on.

I meant to write this on my birthday, September 11. But I spent the day with my family.
Which is the way it should be.
And by waiting a day or two to post, I found that same ol’ three-of-a-kind thread thing goin’ again…. (I mean, sometimes an idea I’m mulling shows up [...]

NEW JOURNEY: The First Step

Letting go of one stage of life in art, moving on to the next.
WARNING: The following is my personal experience and thoughts on this particular juncture in my life.
I do not cast judgment or aspersions on anyone else’s decisions and goals. It is simply one person’s thoughts (mine) on what I’m going [...]

YOUR REAL CAREER

This is another party story, like Turning the Tables.
At this same party, there were so many new people I’d never met, unusual in our smallish town. I would ask people, “What do you do?”
It always feels like a hopelessly inadequate question. After all, a person working as a clerk in an office could [...]

CHAIN OF HOPE

As a small postscript to yesterday’s post SILENT EVIDENCE, let me share another chain story.
Our little family traveled to France soon after 9/11. We’d made the arrangements long before the terrorist attacks, and though it was frightening flying overseas less than two weeks later, I’m glad we went.
It was a difficult trip in many [...]

ON SACRED GROUND

Today’s article is odd because I’m not sure why I’m writing it. I just know I must.
I’m reading a book on yoga called Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope. Not sure why… Just saw it at a friend’s house, picked it up and it looked interesting. [...]

9/11 Redux

The older I get, the more often music–the right song at the right time–threatens to drown me in a flood of poignancy.
I was driving to our state capital this morning for a board meeting, searching for a radio station signal strong enough to get me through the next 15 miles. I came across a [...]