Nora’s Big Play

05 Sunday May 2013

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Last weekend I had the immense pleasure of watching Nora in her play about Mexico’s cartoon icon Cri Cri. It was delightful as you can see in these pictures.

This is part of stop and smell the roses for me. Delightful time with Ahavia, Alisa, Nora and Buddy

Where’s Noah?

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

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Here’s a nice metaphor for life…. you set sail on a journey and you are missing your leader. This of course can apply to all walks of life. It also can apply to yourself. Off you go on a journey to accomplish something and you haven’t got a plan or a goal other than to survive. Once you’re out there on the seas of life you realize what the hell am I doing? (This makes me think of the United States under the George Bush regime. Remember Iraq, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction??) We all need to be a better captains of our own ships. We’ve all been there. The take away is think before you act, choose wisely. Are you listening Mr. Obama?

Poor Moses

01 Monday Apr 2013

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I saw this art and it said add your caption. Maybe I’m a little cynical but when I see a suit dealing with my man Moses this is what comes to mind.
Sometimes creative people who have work of biblical proportions behind them get treated as if they’re babbling old fools or Einstein sticking his tongue out at a camera. It’s about time to reconsider how we feel about the older people in the workforce. Sometimes their knowledge and wisdom can be a welcomed relief from the Justin Beiber, Katy Perry set or maybe I’m skewing too young here. The Maroon 5, Christina Aquilera, Rihanna, Usher crowd is more like it.

Babble babble I’m just a baby boomer ranting about getting older even though my spirit is still a teenager

“Hello, this is God speaking…”

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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“The healots are coming! The healots are coming!” So said Walter Brennan in Frank Capra’s wonderful movie John Doe with Gary Cooper and my very favorite actress Barbara Stanwyck. In it Cooper plays a ballplayer-turned-hobo , who’ll do anything for three squares and a place to sleep. When newspaper publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), a fascistic type with presidential aspirations, decides to use Doe (Cooper) as his ticket to the White House, he puts Doe on the radio to deliver inspirational speeches to the masses — ghost-written by Mitchell (Stanwyck), who, it is implied, has become the publisher’s mistress. So when Brennan, who is Cooper’s hobo traveling partner talks about healots he’s talking about Norton and their followers, warning Cooper that he is now part of the corruption.

Ok so what has that got to do with those who would rail against technology taking over our lives, corrupting our souls and burning our brain cells up at a rapid rate? Here’s the take away. If you truly are against progress especially regarding electronic devices then throw away your cell phone and your computer and move out into the woods. Going backwards is not going to make our quality of life better, it’s more about monitoring your usage of abuses of technology. Every now and then step away from the devices and take a walk. gain some balance.

But what about the children?…they will never know what it’s like to hike and fish and smell the wafting smell of azaleas. Horse pucky as one of my teachers used to say. Our kids are smarter, better educated and move at faster rates then we do so they can do more than we ever did. That means they do both and are adept at each. They time manage better than we did because they have to. It’s progress baby! So you can rail against technology and look like the character in the cartoon above or you can pick up the cell phone and see who’s on the line!

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