When I kissed Ruth goodbye this morning, the position she was laying in reminded me of the the Hanged Man in the Tarot Major Arcana.  I had one of those moments of “hmmm, I better follow this intuition,”  so I snatched the mini tarot book READ MORE

A new day, another train ride down to London.  I was in an optimistic mood this morning.  It felt like I had turned a corner and ahead of me the horizon and wide open possibilities for the future.  It is exciting.  My book about Pythagorean READ MORE

“It is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.” - Dag Hammarskjold

All life is technically an adventure, a bold, usually risky, undertaking with uncertain outcomes. However, because most of us live in expectation that everything should turn out just as we want it to, life becomes oddly a function of habit where we live in the READ MORE

I thought might be time to get back into sketching…great for relaxing and focuses the mind.  I sketched this picture of Jonh Lennon on my way home from London late last night.

The visible world is only a construct in your mind. When you see something you are not seeing what is really there. What you are seeing is your visual cortex’s best guess of what is there. Your visual cortex then produces something that nearly resembles READ MORE

Loving this…

Ten Things I have Learned Part of AIGA Talk in London, November 22, 2001 Now on www.miltonglaser.com

Please check out Milton Glaser’s site here and you can find the original essay here.

1. YOU CAN ONLY WORK FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU LIKE.

This is a curious rule and READ MORE

“As is the life of the leaves so is that of men. The wind scatters the leaves to the ground: the vigorous forest puts forth others, and they grow in the spring season. Soon one generation of men comes another ceases.” - Homeric passage

GLORIA ANN LOWE… 12/19/1952 – 07/23/2010

“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” – Revelation 21:4

My mom passed away last week.

You are never really READ MORE

“Worry is otherwise known as ‘fantasized catastrophizing’ where we create an image of the future and use it to frighten ourselves! Be aware that you are doing it, then stop doing it, otherwise the image will become a self fulfilling prophesy. Imagine only the brightest READ MORE

“When will you begin to live virtuously, Plato asked an old man who was telling him that he was attending a series of lectures on virtue. One must not just speculate for ever; one must one day also think about actual practice. But today we READ MORE

“If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgements about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Measure life in loan payments and time quickly runs out; measure life by infinite values and time keeps out of the way.” - Henry David Thoreau

“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of the speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with READ MORE

I’ve been working flat out over the last 3 months or so getting up at 0430 to be out the door by 0545 to catch the 0620 train to London (a journey that takes me about two hours), out the door at the place I READ MORE