This morning I learned what it is to have your entire life flash before your eyes. On my walk, as the black, pre-dawn, heavy humid-filled air filled my lungs, and I thought I was drowning. Getting caught on the back leg of walk in a soaking downpour that had flash flood written on every teeming [...]
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As my feet rowed through the heavily humid morning air, I felt a tinge of poignancy. I won’t tell you what triggered these thoughts other than say that unexpectedly I had an extremely heart-rendering and highly confidential telephone conversation with an ex-student. And, then, something happened in class yesterday. At that moment, the two touched [...]
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Yesterday afternoon, as I was subconsciously still going over a series of serious conversations I have had this past week, I found myself momentarily watching the U.S. Open. I don’t know why I stopped at that channel. I am neither a golfer nor a particular golf fan. As an ex- collegiate soccer player, the World [...]
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This weekend I was reading a short book called FISH. About half way through it a passage jumped out and grabbed me: “….the needs of the organization and our needs as workers are the same….” After I had underlined those words, I closed the book, leaned back, and then closed my eyes. After a few [...]
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Well, I am 61. I really don’t feel it or believe it, or even act it, except when I get that blasted senior citizen discount. My body is no a longer trim, firm, solid, defined, muscular 148 pounds of my collegiate athletic days. I walk my six miles every other day, daily lift very light [...]
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