The Importance of Being Lucky

The Importance of Being Lucky

  “[The Importance of Being Earnest] is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy…That we should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” Oscar Wilde...
Sanity

Sanity

 As I write this I sit in fog drenched Mendocino while much of the country suffers under the horrid heat of a global heat wave. I indulge myself in quiet esthetic contemplation in the midst of an ugly political cat fight that divides the country. In a word I choose...
Wisdom, Age, Life, Politics

Wisdom, Age, Life, Politics

 Well, here we are in one hell of a pickle. America may have been here before but never quite as deep in the weeds as we are now. Just weeks away from the two major political conventions both parties are committed to unpopular octogenarians for the highest office in...
Mr. Ego

Mr. Ego

You can’t keep standing on tiptoeor walk in leaps and bounds.You can’t shine by showing offor get ahead by pushing.Self-satisfied people do no good,self-promoters never grow up.Such stuff is to the Taoas garbage is to foodor a tumor to the body,hateful.The follower of...
Confidence

Confidence

 I think I can, I think I can. I think I can.I knew I could. I knew I could. I knew I could.                   The Little Engine That Could It’s better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all.                    Paraphrase of Alfred Lord Tennyson Fail...
We Aren’t Electing A Saint

We Aren’t Electing A Saint

 This phrase has been used to justify a vote for Donald Trump for President. The very fact that there is a need to justify a vote for Donald Trump exposes the concerns many have about making him President once again. Dozens of people he appointed to cabinet and high...