What a better day than today to write about this? Almost 250 years ago, the people in the original colonies of the USA signed the Declaration of Independence against the “King of Great Britain (with) a history of repeated injuries and usurpations”. The...
One of my relatives used to have quite a bad boss. An individual who was probably in their position due to some series of fortunate events that led him there. This particular person, whenever asked something about the job, he would answer snarkily: “Do you want...
We need some resistance. I do. Nowhere is this more palpable than when you are in the water. You can feel the water pushing against you as you move. And that is a good thing, because paddling, pushing the water away from you, is what propels us forward. There is also...
You are standing at the same place. It is what it is. You have bee hiking for the last four hours. One foot in front of the other. Negotiating the rocks, the roots. Turning each switchback in expectation of being closer to the summit. Just the occasional sip of water...
The usually accepted thinking, is that the past shapes our present. We look into history to understand who we are. We even have a maxim in digital communications that goes “the best prediction of the next sample, is the immediately prior one”. All of these...
My anniversary was a few days ago. Of course I did get a gift, and I did make a reservation for dinner. But on this day, I like to wake up my wife to the aroma of flowers, but I don’t want the flowers to whither overnight, so I had to make a customary dash in...
