Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr Donald Trump is about my age. We were probably both in similar type locker rooms when we’re in high school, and homogeneous locker rooms associated with golf thereafter. I am sure that Trump has a lot more experience with locker rooms then I do because he seems more physically active. But I […]
Money Controls. What can we, current slaves of the money culture, do to free ourselves and our children? Money controls easily because it has its own language and culture, and the average person finds that particular language tedious and confusing to learn. In the Western world we have printed or are printing literally […]
In the moment. People like people who are fun, and fun is in the moment. Kids live in the moment, and look at how much fun they have. In the moment means being able to put aside chores, phones, computers, responsibilities and thoughts past and future. It is about what is happening now. In the moment is […]
Friends in memory A friend is someone you’ve eaten a pound of salt together with! (Indian proverb.) I lost two friends last week. Eric Joss, who I’ve known 48 years and Maddie Zolfo, who I’ve known 30. That’s a lot of salt. Friends need an unbreakable commitment to trust and respect, qualities that take […]
Visions – How visions work. (Excerpt from “The Traveler”) A vision is that portion of a dream that is uncluttered, recurrent, and deals strictly with the future. I met Barney 20 years ago in Anjuna Beach, India, a little town that reminded me of my childhood – oak trees and the smell of roasting nuts. Breakfasting […]
Intimacy = private, trusting, truthful and no-reprisal. Intimacy with travelers I never met before was the very best aspect of my years traveling. I couldn’t get enough! It was heaven. Why is it easy to be intimate with people we don’t know and so hard with people we do? They have no axe to grind! […]
Mykonos, Greece. The place showed few signs of the quaint fishing village atmosphere where Shirley Valentine traded her housewife blues for romance with a married Greek tavern owner. Its maze of streets buzzed with bars, restaurants and boutiques displaying glittering gold and silver. Joe and I were in an outdoor bar overlooking the aqua sea […]
In poor countries, people ask: Are you married? How many children do you have? What are their names? The emphasis: family. My youngest daughter who traveled for five years said to me, “In the rich world people ask what you do for a living. In poor countries they ask about your family. It’s clear the […]
$19 trillion in U.S. government debt Is the dinosaur in the room during upcoming presidential elections. How big is $19 trillion? $19 trillion in debt = stacked $1 bills going from earth to the moon and back 2 1/2 times. The moon is an average of 239,000 miles from earth. $19 trillion is $160,000 debt for every taxpayer. So what are the prime […]
Balance What is balance? How do you achieve balance? When I was a kid I had freedom to hop into a small blue boat with an outboard engine and whisk out into the bay at full throttle, a thin layer of water vibrating at my feet as the boat bounced hard across waves. Wind rushed […]