Every decade or so, we come across a new variation and version of the Ponzi scheme: old people – instead of being on cruise trips – end up being in court, to deliberate and persecute perpetrators, whether it’s a Christian radio host who promises of a new Kingdom or a Credit Suisse/Archegos guy (also a…

Booster 1, booster 2 etc… EcoPeace for the Middle East. Water thieves, catalytic-convertor thieves… I.D. theft, Honda Civic theft… Evangelical fired, evangelical re-hired… Greta giving up on politicians, politicians giving up on Trump, Trump giving up on Twitter, Twitter giving up on Trump… Just a tip of the iceberg today. And it’s only Wednesday, our…

I resent those who tell me how to live, who to become and what path to take. After all, I grew up in a household with 4 adults – in shifts – just for that: do’s and don’t’s. Further up, all those “institutions” (tuition and instructors) from French lycée to Mandarin-oriented HS, from “secular” campus…

You’ll get there, that I am sure. When time runs out. Others will gladly take your places. Vacancy. space. possession. Life is like a big hotel, where no one can claim monopoly: it’s my domain my throne. We are around just for the ride yet we think/act as if we were made of teflon: like…

On a fly, I just booked it. Screw it, let’s do it. It’s now or never. It’s autumn. It’s Vermont and New Hampshire. It’s the leaves, the times of our lives. I know those who sang “forever young” are now dead. Delusion. Self-deception. We, human, carry a capacity to lie to ourselves. That everything is…

Stripped off nobility, You can still have dignity. That’s the difference. You and I have the latter while very few inherited the former. Not even Bezos or Zuckerberg. They might be able to “buy” the title “Sir” (Charlie Chaplin, Elton John and Paul McCartney earned it by their talents and fame). Once again, I scanned…

I was conceived and designed to be the tallest. Everyone wanted a piece of me (and my twin): taking pictures, walking a tight wire from one end to the other; reserving tables at Windows on the World (Carpenters’ Top of the world on muzak) then using commercial jet liners to hit me and my twin,…

In the end, who else can we be, identifiable and predictable, but ourselves: conceived in a womb, at the intersect of two people, who themselves were products of billions of permutations and years of evolution. David Brooks opined that we – human being – have yet made much progress on self-awareness. We can re-frame our…

Here is Bingham https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/09/11/rugby-star-9-11-hero-mark-bingham-leaves-lasting-legacy-20-years-after-united-flight-93-crash/ Here is Beamer https://www.wsj.com/articles/flight-93-united-todd-beamer-9-11-september-eleventh-jihadist-terrorist-attack-11631223355?page=1 Local (SF) vs National/International coverage (WSJ). Although the Twin Towers were built side by side, these two heroes who died of equal deaths and carried equal weights, drew unequal attention. That’s all I am saying. And that’s just in a span of twenty years. Another 40, 50…