My father tried to retire for years. Every time he tried to retire, I kept him involved in our business enterprises. He finally got the best of me one night, I rolled on the subject and accepted his desire to retire. He passed away within a year. That’s my view of retirement. “Retire and die.” [...]

I was thinking about the fact that, when I am in doubt on a particular issue, I always default in favor of conventions. You may know what I mean, but just in case you don’t let me explain. For those of you who play Bridge, Goren has a set of conventions that, 95 percent of [...]

The process of morphing is really the process of incessant recalibration. Original writing date: May 5, 2005

You know, as I watched the Edwards tragedy unfold, I kept targeting back to a column I read some time ago syndicated by the Washington Post and written by Kathleen Parker, one of my favorite columnists. The article didn’t deal with a character issue, but it certainly had questions. She kept thinking, “What was he [...]

The geometry of a particular concept. For example, the geometry of the nonphysical world. Or the geometry of a particular study or structure. The geometry of cause and effect. The geometry of a product life cycle. Original writing date: February 28, 2006

The concept of duality suggests that there is a separation between what is manifest and what is not manifested. Integration suggests that to live an integrated life is to operate in a life which is manifested with a recognition that beyond the manifest is an unmanifested dimension of being which is deep, vast and inclusive. [...]

There was nobody in life who told me that youth and sexuality go hand in hand and that there are not disadvantages, but major advantages at any level! (Billy Joel’s wife, among others.) Original writing date: March 31, 2008

No future ever arrives. Can you be richer? Happier? Better? If you structure an existence around seeking a condition or a circumstance different than the one you currently have, then there is no circumstance which will be different for you tomorrow than it is today. Original writing date: June 16, 2008

When I operate from a state of intense nervous tension or anxiety, then I appear to be running towards the future. There is no possibility that I will ever have an opportunity to find that future because the future will continue to recede as I continue to find other comparables to reverberate towards. When I [...]

In a state of being, rather than doing, we do not need a future in order to fulfill our own sense of being or our own sense of self. And if we choose to do as well as to be, we can do so without being attached to the doing and with a balance between [...]