Per Bloom who taught at Yale, there were about 1200 religions in the US (United Faiths). More splintered groups, cults and conspiracies (Qanon Shaman got 41 months in jail for J6). Who to believe? Too many moons (Son of Moon took over the franchise. Franklin Graham his Dad’s , so did the Lynchburg guy who…

We will never know how and when our story ends. Nor do we wish to know. Dust we must. It’s a blessing in disguise to live with unknowns, one of which, so obvious to others, but not to us: we can’t even see ourselves. Only its reflection (or self-projection). The best we can is to…

In high school, I worked hard and modeled myself after fame, fortune, and future-forward leaders. Aren’t we all? Yet, this quest was more challenging given war throughout my youth. We learned about the Grandeur of France, Belle du Jour, and Breathless (smoking). We learned about WWII atrocities (famine which killed 2 million in the North…

Somewhere along the line, our intended message is lost in translation. We meant this, they perceived that. Even with ubiquitous communication technologies, with Edit button, Delete button and Comment option. Quick to transmit. Too late to learn we are intrinsically different ( hence, the need for audience analysis, segmentation and not bunching different groups e.g.…

Paul Tournier said, “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets”. Those moments when we felt more like Fredo than Michael Corleone. Fredo, played by Cazale, half Irish, half Italian was at one time in a relationship with Meryl Streep (also in the Deer Hunter where she played a Vietnam draftee’s bridesmaid in a Slavic…

Featured here is the baby in Ghostbusters 2, then and now. Cast? an added member of the Ghostbuster team. Crew? Those who did the animation and special effects. We are never an island. In fact it’s a series of Hello and Goodbye to an ensemble of folks. There were at minimum 4 when I was…

The bully pulpit. Megaphone. Crowd herding. Stove piping. Gaslighting. You got the gist. Every so often, we thought of change or be the change only to find the grass is not quite greener. How about going back to when we were “freer” men? Only men? Our Colonial past, a nation of slaves in pursuit of…

68-69 time frame. Average age: 21. 3/4 in support role i.e. in Long Binh, Cam Ranh Bay…where padlocks, lots of padlocks, we’re to secure troops supplies. The rest: in combat platoons. No R&R in sight. Often times, wounded. Carried and Covered in ponchos. We’re starting Middle School (to us, it’s Big League, since in Vietnam,…

Things they carried. On a small boat. Up State, Up North. Draft-card burning. Bras burning. Hell No, We Won’t Go. Except this time, it’s Russian. Not long-hair hippies of a Woodstock era. I remember a concert by Paul McCartney in Moscow way back after the Iron Curtain fell. Youth everywhere just want to hold each…

Just now, on live TV, I watched the crown, Queen’s, placed upon the altar. Rested on purple velvet. Royalty at rest. May she rest in peace. We all sooner or later join her. May we R.I.P. as well. The end. Most important event in all of life (we’ve got no say as to our lineage).…