Snail Surplus? Might be Duck Deficiency: On being present to difficulties. Sometimes I just listen.
There are inscrutable positions that we find ourselves in. Rocks. Hard places. Swords of Damocles hanging over us...and then it falls. There is this Shangri-La we hope to live in sans difficulties, sans sorrow with abundant happiness. While I certainly agree with the...
I don’t think we need to go all the way to 20
In the late afternoon a tall blonde woman came up to the table. She was perhaps in her early 60's. Quite striking looking and, if I had to guess, had Parkinson's Disease. Perhaps it was something else but she tremored and had that somewhat palsied face. If you could...
Lean into and heighten your obstacle
Nobody likes obstacles. And things we don't like we usually try to avoid. On one level this makes sense. If you don't like spinach, you avoid it. If you don't like your crazy racist aunt, you avoid her. You don't like the idea of dying so we do things that will hasten...
Chase Tragedy: Do the opposite of your goals
"This is something else I can blame my mother for - her cancer is ruining my comedy career." ********** I have been very fortunate to have been involved with the Upright Citizens Brigade since they first arrived in New York City from Chicago in 1996. I stumbled into...
Like it or not, you are a Somali pirate
What would you do about the pirate situation off the coast of Somalia? ********** There is nothing simple about the country of Somalia on the eastern Horn of Africa. It achieved independence from Britain and Italy in 1960 and because of its important strategic...
Homeless Dreams of Dragons
"Pay What You Like or Take What You Need" That is what a small sign says on my table in Union Square in New York. The bigger sign reads "Creative Approaches To What you Have Been Thinking About." What that means exactly is mysterious. People pay in varying amounts....
“How do I keep from getting murdered?”
A note before I get into the story of this interaction. It is very graphic. It involves criminal activity, violence and coarse sexual language. While I personally wasn't offended during the occurrence, to recount the story it must be told. If you might be offended by...