Arriving early at the airport for my flight home, I knocked off a few thousand steps walking around the terminal. I’m stuck by the commitment to drinking at 7 AM as I passed bar after bar of people nursing adult beverages. I’m no prude, and you never know what time zone someone in an airport…
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio. As a music fan I’ve wanted to check this out for years, but I was rarely in Cleveland and when I was the HOF was inconveniently closed. It seems the HOF keeps banker’s hours, which is ironic given the lifestyles of the inductees….
The roar starts around 5:30 and continues on for as long as the wind direction dictates. There’s no mistaking when you’re staying in the flight path of a major airport, as the roar continues every couple of minutes until the rush of morning flights slows. This is the world we live in; connected to all…
One of the curiosities of travel is the complimentary buffet at the hotel. If I have a travel rule, it’s to stay in places that offer at minimum a decent breakfast. This is becoming increasingly common in most mid-priced hotel chains, probably because people like me turn our nose up at continental breakfasts of toast…
“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all:— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall…
Yesterday morning I stood outside, barefoot, on the deck scanning the woods. A dozen deer were moving silently through, silhouetted by the sun reflecting off the rapidly melting snow. Unusually warm weather has created this opportunity to stand barefoot for me, and given the deer access to acorns and other edibles that should be locked…
“Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It’s the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It’s the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!” – Tom Peters “It is a simple two-step process: Decide the type of person you want to be. Prove…
“Our awareness has been stretched wider than ever in history, but often at the cost of taking away a lifetime of experiences.” – Seth Godin “We were the first humans who would never see something for the first time.” – Gillian Flynn Both of these appeared in my feed within minutes of each other this…
This morning I got up quietly while it was still dark, dressed and walked downstairs for the normal habit loop when I paused in the kitchen, hearing echoes. I glanced at the clock, used to it’s mocking, but it stayed on topic this early, offering up 6:20 AM. I looked around, placed my hands on…
“…I don’t believe only to the edge of what my eyes actually see in the kindness of the morning, do you? And my life, which is my body surely, is also something more— isn’t yours?” – Mary Oliver, from The Pinewoods Reading this, I thought of the familiar analogy of a stone dropped in a…