Categories: Modern life
… random observations from my journeys through a well-lived life
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Do you ever have one of those days where you bound out of bed in the morning with your work plan all tidy and shiny, well-formed and ready to be implemented? Then everything turns to ca-ca before you’ve finished putting on your shoes? It’s Thursday. One of my two days off in the work week. I’m supposed to deliver the outline for my first novel to my mentor, Sam Hiyate today. I’m about half to two thirds of the way through and yesterday I was in a really productive groove. I thrive on deadlines – the closer the hour gets the faster my adrenaline sloshes through my veins and my fingers fly across the keyboard. On the other hand, I dislike being stressed by…
Tagged: gratitude
How often have we joked that, “I feel depressed” because someone was mean to us or we failed an exam or ran out of chocolate or can’t find the right handbag to go with our new outfit? Most of the time, no one took us seriously, especially since we were not truly suffering from a cellular disease that affected our behaviour and clouded our thinking. Today however, we reflect on the death (by hanging with a belt) of another stellar talent who could not sustain his life through the dark corridors of impenetrable depression. Robin Williams made so many of us laugh but he lost his battle with demons I can’t begin to imagine. Here is a young man – Mark Henick – who…
Categories: Modern life, What I'm Doing
Tagged: sadness
I have an acquaintance – certainly not a friend and I would never call her a relative – who is one of the oddest people I have ever encountered. A 69 year old former elementary school teacher, this woman has no affect. Her mode of dress is mid-80s granola-eating hippie unchic. She still uses film in her camera, vigorously decrying the evils of digital progress. In a family that revels in food, drink, noise and hugs, she is the odd person out, sitting on the edges of conversation with little interest in contributing to the tsunami of conversations. Not because no one is interested in her but because she chooses not to engage. Apparently, we aren’t worth the effort. She’s a deliberate outsider with…
Categories: Argument
Tagged: bas behaviour, values
A while ago, British newspaper The Guardian launched a new media campaign, kicking off with a television advertisement about how the Three Little Pigs fairytale would be covered in the social media age. If you’ve been paying any attention to the wall to wall coverage of mundane events (kid in a well, hot dog eating contests), media depictions of day-to-day nuttiness (Wal-Martians), victimology and the ordinary ‘news’, this will sort of make sense.
Categories: Argument, Modern life
Tagged: can you believe that?
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