Earlier this year, I read a Malcolm Gladwell book, Talking to Strangers. I enjoy his work and was surprised that I missed this one, which came out in 2019. I suspect it was subsumed by current events happening at the time, overshadowed by politics. This one was different than earlier books I had read of …
In The Hobbit, there is a scene where Bilbo and the Dwarves are wandering around Mirkwood forest. They have lost the path and are wandering without purpose. They have run out of food and are starving and can't make themselves eat the animals that they catch, for they seem inedible. They have run out of …
I am just coming back from a week off from work, as my office closes between Christmas and New Year’s. Having grown up in retail, it still seems strange to me to have that week off, and I was kinda dreading it this year. Usually we are away for that week, visiting my family, my …
There is a saying - I am sure you have heard it - that if you are depressed, you are attached to the past; and if you are anxious, you are attached to the future. The cure for both is staying in the present moment. Which meditation is practice of. And yet, some of us …
For some reason when I woke up this morning, I was thinking of the King of Rohan. For those of you only familiar with the movie of The Lord of the Rings, cast your minds back to the scene where Gandalf enters a darkened hall and finds a King huddled on his throne, weighed down …
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