Archive for Month: April 2025

When I turned 70, my daughter Rebecca, said, “Dad, you should stop writing books and start a blog.”  Since, I highly value her perspective, I replied, “Good idea.”  Now, as I have turned 80, I can look back on the 399 essays I posted on this blog during that decade and review the topics addressed.  I decided to organize all of them into an accessible format and to use the alphabet as the organizing construct, Read More

In a recent NYT article,  Roger Rosenblatt, age 85, shared his 10 secrets for growing old happily.  Here’s his list with my brief interpretations.  Nobody’s thinking about you. Get over yourself. Make young friends. Connect with people who have a fresh perspective and who are thinking more about living than dying. Try to see fewer than five doctors. Don’t let your life revolve around Dr. visits. Get a dog. Find a source of unconditional positive Read More

“You can’t heal what you don’t acknowledge.” Jack Cornfield “When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”  Bayard Rustin, organizer of 1963 March on Washington for Civil Rights “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”  Mark Twain “The defining characteristic of love is specificity.  To be seen accurately in all our freakish particularity Read More

“Interdependence is no longer our choice. It’s our condition. Our only choice is whether we forge healthy interdependencies and rise together or maintain unhealthy interdependencies and fall together.” Dov Siedman “Abundance is a determination to align our collective genius with the needs of both the planet and each other.” Ezra Klein   I don’t know about you, but I’m having a hard time finding an abundance of hope for our planet in this blizzard of Read More