Many things come to mind would be an understatement for: 1: Ben Folds 2: Prague Cluttered through the history of these ramblings these two forces have been recurring items. Just seeing this wonderful man belt out angst ridden pop ballads and gut wrenching said songs makes my heart scream with joy and wallow in sorrow [...]
As the days go on while being on the payroll of the paranoid, I keep thinking back to a quote by Joseph Nye, “It’s not whose army wins; it’s also whose story wins.” Meanwhile, as Senator Elect Gary Johnson says: Remarkable things are happening across the globe. People are taking to the streets to demand [...]
One thing that ol’ Ben Kweller instilled in my thoughts was the statement ‘I want to see everything TWICE!’ I was lucky enough to step foot in Vienna the second time around, 11 years later, what a heck of a ride since the first round. It’s been so fun, inspiring and humbling. I wanted to [...]
Initial thoughts: In the land of technology, abundance and automation…how is it relevant anymore to name drop ‘the founding fathers’ and what they’d do about the political climate? Did they realize we’d all have iPhones? How did we go from Cato the Elder to the clowns we now have on TV? What about reconciling the [...]
There comes a time when a man has to have personal dialogue with himself. A time to seek spirituality, inner peace, and what’s right and wrong. There’s a time when thoughts trump actions, and actions speak louder than words, a time to reflect, a time to be curious, a time to let your emotion run [...]
A Turkish ship runs and Israeli blockade, and there’s nothing the United States can do about it…..Interesting implications here, an event that merits rewriting 85% of America’s foreign policy in the middle east. I can’t articulate as well as Stratfor, but I can attempt to understand. Most folks would look at this through a political [...]
Cashing in on the pop goodness of Bon Jovi….you see, he’s a man that’s grown old with ‘coolness’ and dignity. While the likes of many 80′s rockers are in heroin rehab, he’s still selling out arenas all over the world. It’s the stuff role models are made of….no no no…he didn’t resort to slammin’ cheetos [...]
Shaking some hands this week and marking this chapter on Italy and 2010 complete and thinking about lessons learned, I feel the biggest lessons learned are ones that are hard to explain, they go more along the lines of how I felt, more spiritual and less scientific. I know what it feels like to live [...]
2010 was one of those years of complexity and clarity under a sheath of design and system thinking. A year that has proven these disciplines will help you mentally break free of the news and events of the day. However you want to frame reality or the hierarchies that contain it, it’s something above and beyond [...]