I have a toilet handle I can’t figure out how to fix. It’s loose, I fully expect it to fall apart at some embarrassing moment (when, say, the royal family is visiting), and a plumber could probably pull out a whatsis wrench and have it in working order within 60 seconds. But not me. I … Continue reading Luddite Foresight: Metaskills for Meeting Change
Yesterday, I received Gunilla Norris’ new book, Great Love In Little Ways: Reflections On The Power Of Kindness, This morning I read her first reflection, “The Sunshine In Your Face”. A representative quotation from that piece is: When two people genuinely smile on one another, they create a mutual radiance. Imagine what this might be … Continue reading My Morning Whatchamacallit
"If you think you have it tough, read history books." Bill Maher One Apostle Beginnings can be hard. You stand at the bottom and look up, up, up at the face of a cliff and it seems impossible. Most, though, take one step forward. And then another. And next thing you know, you have slices … Continue reading One Apostle
"How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?" Charles Lindbergh Settling for Less I am still surprised that as … Continue reading Settling for Less
“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!” ― Diane Duane, Wizards at War Fighting Entropy Diane Duane is a terrific fantasy writer. One of her series is The Feline Wizards in which cats are running the real show behind the scenes and if we only knew! The fun of reading … Continue reading Fighting Entropy
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." George Orwell Those Old People John Prine is still alive. He is a song-writer and a very good one, I have several of his albums. He made is mark in the … Continue reading Those Old People
"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." Jack Kerouac Writing the Short Story A short story is fun to read and write. A small idea gets flushed out and presented on paper and it sits there quite nice. We could use many more books of short stories. It is a bit irksome … Continue reading Writing the Short Story
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." Dale Carnegie How To: Part Two This is a follow up to my prior post. The experts on living will tell you to be "in the moment". This is a bit vague. There is a very specific way to be in the moment. Using art terms … Continue reading How To: Part Two
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win” Sun Tzu, The Art of War How To: Here at the Profound Bartender, we have seen a lot of humanity. People and players from all walks of life, so many with the same problems … Continue reading How To:
"When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the … Continue reading Once Upon a Time in …
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