These days that handle heat and patriotism, mixed with bubbles, street carnivals and overpriced flags made in China, are also reminders of subtler emotions, deeds and promises: we all read the books, and can almost TH understand the meaning and …
Why is it that work becomes so boring after a while? Why projects remains exciting, no matter how exhausting and demanding? Why is the thrill of a deadline better than the monotonous drone of the routine meeting and the impossible …
For no particular reason, Dylan Thomas’ Do not go gentle into the good night: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. …
Loneliness settles unbid, and my list grows longer. My life pretends to be easy, When the only obligation I want escapes me. What to do? Behave impeccably!
I have achieved the dubious distinction of not writing but once a month! What an honor! As Gaiman says, in a magnificent advocacy of recursion, the best description of the story is the story itself, for it then becomes the …
I finally realized why is it that blogging is such a boring, depressing activity as of lately. It is as fun as going to the cemetery to converse with old friends, and precisely for the same reasons. When I first …
Merlin asks for eccentricities, all those little quirks that made us different from the people around us. That is a travel through a period of self-discovery and self-consciousness: we were inventing our persona. In high school, and for a while …
New year, and with it, thought and introspection. This, from Matt Howie, on advice and getting old: maybe life isn’t a journey to uncover new truths in far off places, but instead to simply gain enough to experience to understand …
Create the storyboard to your life, create the possibilities, the dreams, the travels, the knowledge: Avi Solomon’s advice is as simple as that, to make our relationship with the future we create as compelling and easy to perceive as the …
Here in WS the great advantage is that I am surrounded by people that know me. So, yes, it is very comfortable. The downside is that I am already missing somebody else that lives in the 510 area code. Cool, …
