Month: October 2019

THOSE UNKOWN DEMONS

“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke, and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who… Read More ›

LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.” ― Emily Dickinson “And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.” ― Neil Young “Did… Read More ›

FLEETING MOMENTS

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O’Connor“ Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully. “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.” “And he has Brain.” “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was… Read More ›

THE PROCESS MATTERS

“And yet it was true: the responsibility was huge, but there is nothing about being a father that I don’t love. I even found the toddler tantrums weirdly charming. You think you’re being difficult, my little sausage? Have I ever… Read More ›

APPRECIATE YOU

“That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.”… Read More ›

PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS

“The best things in life make you sweaty.” ― Edgar Allan Poe “Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than by any other cause; and the… Read More ›

THE BIG FIVE ZERO ZERO

“There’s that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they’re doing it with such panache and conviction…no, it’s because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.” ―… Read More ›