I’ve been listening to past Bill Moyers interviews and also getting back into the groove of my walking. A neighbor loves to take urban hikes and I wish I had the time allotment to do more of them. This morning I received a pop up message from a friend and neighbor on Facebook, the message was hard core raunchy and I was taken aback and then realized it was not her at all. Someone had…
About that post that was circulating about life isn’t fair, well it should be. I was walking through the park this morning and listening to Bill Moyers interviewing Anna Deavere Smith about her play she does called Let Me Down Easy where she channels 20 characters from around America and this one about a Charity Hospital doctor during the Federal Flood just hit me like an arrow through the heart.
I came across a person I just met who has been acting rather cold and stiff after this initial warm fuzzy and I thought to myself, self I thought, did I do something to her to deserve this cold shoulder. I shuffled through the card deck of all the culpability that I might have in this life or another, and came up with a few items that might be dusted off but nothing specific. Then…
Recently, someone I know has been acting shamefully and it’s interesting to me that though others have noticed it too, no one really gets that shocked by shame. In Japan, when they put up traffic cameras, people were so concerned about being on camera for a violation, shame drove them to submission. In America, many of the photographs taken with the traffic cameras have people flipping the bird. Today, walking through City Park, I saw…
I have spent countless hours in electronic triage and yesterday was no joyful ride again. 12 hours of trying to recover data from Notepad after upgrading to Lion, of trying to get the iCloud, iPhone, Apple Address Book, Google to sync contacts and rid myself once and for all of Outlook, and trying to change my Apple Id resulted in twelve long hours of misery. The end result is that I was able to get…