When a child, I came across this and did not get it “one cannot bathe in the same river twice” . To my ignorance, I dove into the waters, splashing with all the gusto of life. One cannon ball then another. Later, when I came back to the same river. My city. Then I saw…

It’s not a coincidence that inmates like Papillon were put in total isolation a punishment worse than death. We’re social animals. Meta knows this. All socials, Truth Social included, know this. Keep pumping and putting unverified content out there. Even a small percentage of responses can cover platform payload. The extra? next round of rant…

Long ago, I was one of the cameramen atop a riser covering a national event. When the red light in my viewfinder was on, I knew I was live. Steady, steady, steady shot. Recently, we read about the documentary footage handed over to the J6 Commission. In them, of course, the Proud Boys were just…

I moved my lawn chair this morning to face the rising sun: shy, sneaky and seen slowly through and over our neighbor’s tree. Nevertheless, it’s my greatest sun (to copy the US Olympic goal keeper’s memoir: My greatest save). Until tomorrow and the next day. Every time, every morning, we’re graced with this consistency, the…

I too was mesmerized. Those hours of J6 Day 6 flew by so fast. I will spare you the details. Just what struck me. Here was an aid to Meadows whose Verizon phone had been confiscated. Thousands of texts and tweets (aside from burner phones). Yet she could recount almost verbatim, a year and a…

Big rocks first. weeds and sand will cram and creep in over time. We are unable to face silence and serenity! or patience and perseverance. We have to exchange our inner for outer, what’s intrinsic and intangible for countable and measurable. Welcome to the age of monetizing and materializing everything: Costco carts or our garages,…

From Kushner to Kamala: emphasizing the positives and erasing the negatives. Hire a ghost writer. Voila, leave behind the 4th L (legacy). Once I worked in the International Telecom field. Oh my! Customer data dump, on an Excel spreadsheet, showing long and winding last names: from Croatian to Pakistanis, from Chinese to Vietnamese. Had it…

No stranger to push back. To divisiveness. First, it’s French Indochina (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam). Then within Vietnam, North, Central and South (except for Cape St Jacques and Dalat for the Madames to escape scorching heat while hubbies slept with mistresses). Then 1954 partition of North and South at the 17th parallel (even today, North…

We slowly unravel one scientific mystery after another: from Archimedes to Alzheimer, from Pasteur to Pluto. Then, bang, gone. Accumulated in a lifetime: memories, moments and misery, accidentally deleted. What made us who we are triumph and trail of burned bridges. Gone. From then, we just vegetate from one day to the next. Every day…

“To make a dent in the universe”….”would you live your life the same way, knowing you have one more week to live”…”stay hungry, stay curious”…By now, you should recognise those quotes. So universally true. So simple yet profound. And worth-heeding since they came out of the mouth of our Next’s CEO. Next, next, next….that’s what…