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Your own personal Jesus

There are so many things that seem to be having a boomerang effect lately that I’m wondering if I flew into a time warp somewhere between Istanbul and Shanghai. Caught up with an old colleague of mine for drinks this evening and you’d think that the meeting in and of itself would have just been a pleasant how are you doing – instead it shed light on some of the goings on that one might…

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A whiff of fall in the air in Central Park

Long walk to the park this morning that started in the dark. Walking down the streets of New York listening to my IPOD and still the noise was all around me, steam rising from the streets, people everywhere at 5:45 in the morning – the city that never sleeps. The foilage in the park is just starting to look like fall is arriving and there is a smell of cooler air. My Flower writes that…

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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”

Last night, after finally getting to bed pretty late, I questioned the real estate I have given certain people, certain themes, and decided that I had taken my eyes off the goal. So I started thinking about those goals all over again – what are they? – well, in macro terms they involve having a fabulous life. While this might seem like a selfish goal in and of itself – you can only spread goodwill…

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Playing hide and seek with your own shadow

A day of peaks and valleys – of leaving oneself in too many places and finding yourself in old familiar territory. Steve writes from the LaLa porch that the weather is delightful – but he adds New Orleans seems empty. Here in NY, the city is brimming with people – I passed an outdoor bar at 5PM and it was standing room only. There is a continuous din of taxis blowing their horns and a…

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Where there is fire, there is smoke and possibly delusion

Sent an email to the Mesmerizer today as a truce against the silence but then later in thinking about all that is and was and might have been – I wonder about myself – I’m over the top as my friend and colleague put it last night and I might be intimidating, I am possibly intimidating just with the whole package – and I said it is what it is. I’m not in the natural…

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