Is American Positivity Dead?
As a child growing up with paralysis from Polio, I intuitively looked for role models to give me strength. Like many boys at the time, Superman held promise and through thick and thin, always managed to save the day. But I also recall nights, crying myself to sleep asking my Catholic God why I was […]
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Hierarchy of Needs
During high school in Holland, I learned about Abraham Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs’. Maslow proposed that everyone follows a similar trajectory in life, transitioning from basic to more complex levels of self-realization. Humans begin their journey seeking to satisfy their basic physiological needs and then we try to obtain a sense of security, satisfying one […]
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Mantras & Mindsets
Eckhart Tolle observed that if we see a stranger walking down the street talking out loud to themselves, we think it strange and perhaps a sign of insanity. However, all of us do the same thing all the time though we may not verbalize our thoughts out loud. We are constantly talking to ourselves in […]
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Gratitude
Polio viruses only cause illness in 5 to 10 percent of infections — but the asymptomatic carriers can still spread it to others, who might get the full-blown disease. This is what happened to me in Jerusalem, and this is what is happening now across the planet. Before I could walk, the son of family […]
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Shelter in Place
Much of the world is sitting home, surfing the web, and avoiding the war waged outside their doors. Who could have imagined the fallout from this tsunami, created not by a diabolical dictator but a minuscule virus? Like the nemesis in a James Bond movie that actually gets his way, we are left trapped and […]
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Free Solo Reflections
A day after watching, “Free Solo” the Oscar winning documentary about Alex Honnold’s epic climb of El Capitan in Yosemite, I’m still brought to tears while reflecting on the man and the magnitude of the achievement. Besides being an athletic high water mark, it brings each of us closer to our own mortality and eventually […]
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Helicopters of Hope 2018
When I was five years old, an elderly man in a shopping mall came up to me as I walked along and gave me 25 cents. I didn’t quite know what to make of it but for the rest of my life I’ve been given/shown a lot of kindness. Is the balance of payments […]
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Faith 2018
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Burning Man 2016
Towards Burning Man: As I use a conventional toilet for the last time before entering BM, I realize just how nice it is to not have to stand in line for a spot in a Porta Potty. First reflections: All my life I’ve been looking to choose the right card, experience, job or person while […]
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