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I guess it’s a matter of taste. Four – and Five – star stays during holidays here sentence the visitor to isolation and distance. From what? In my experience, the juice of the country they’ve come to experience. Barry Giovanetto taught me the importance of the title phrase of this installment from Greece. He drove […]

It’s not as bad as you might think! And it’s not good either. But the land and its people go on. I missed this part of the grand backpack tour.   Most who, like me, came over young and thumbed around Europe were told tales for the envious by those who’d been. Nights drinking ouzo in […]

Teflon.  It’s on the ears, the hands, the eyes.  “Whatever” Teflon  – Yeah, I care but there’s a limit. You know how it goes.  There’s an issue with a recovery.  But it’s got a little hair on it. Take your best shot.  Go ahead, make my day.  Fill your boots.  Whatever… It’s all flowing from […]

What could possibly drive a President to a dark place? After all, you have lots of money, people paying attention to what you say; power; position. But there is a surprising frequency of depression among such leaders. What’s up? My buddy Rick Eigenbrod and I got to talking and he scouted out some revealing info […]

What people think will make them happy won’t. By that, I mean the usual goals: money, freedom from work, and the like. Some learn this the hard way by achieving, then wondering what went wrong. Some spend their lives trying to gain the ground to allow them to learn this the hard way! How come, […]

James Whistler was once told by an admirer told that he had been to the coast and the colors he had seen were the colors In Whistler’s paintings. Whistler replied that nature was improving! I wish others could have such great come backs when their acts of imagination were questioned. Because imagination requires working with […]

I’m reading Karl Marlantes’ monumental contribution – What It Means To Go To War. It comes on the heels of Matterhorn – his gritty and totally gripping thinly disguised account of the face of battle for him in Vietnam. The stark world of the soldier and the demonic dilemmas young folks sent to battle must […]

“It’s at 5:59 on Monday evening” “What happens?” “Oh, there will be short presentations from everyone in the class…” “How many?” “About 20” “When will it end?” “Around 10” Not arousing my most keen anticipation. But OK, I’ll show up with Elaine. We’ll sit through it, for the sake of my son, the Graduate … […]

Writing about learning last time, I was taken by some of the reactions. Most confirmed that, yes it is hard – not automatic. The test for learning is change. If the subject learned a new practice, a new skill, a new approach, the question is – can they do it? Most are unwilling to embarrass […]

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