Posted in faith, New York City, religion on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” ~ Matthew 18:20 I stopped going to church a long time ago. I felt let down by organized religion, constrained and burdened by being called a sinner no matter how good I was. I found faith on [...]
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Posted in art, history, New York City on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I ventured over to the New-York Historical Society, a museum next door to the American Museum of Natural History. It is dedicated to history and story telling, particularly those stories that involve New York City. There is a beautiful photography exhibit by Camilo Jose Vergara currently on display, Harlem in Transition, 1970 – 2009. [...]
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Posted in family, friendship, happiness, learning, New York City, writing on May 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lately, I’ve been trying a trick on the subway to make my commute to and from work more enjoyable. Trains are packed during rush hour and invariably I end up next to someone with some annoying habit. This morning, it was this woman who was obsessively turning the pages of the newspaper and folding it [...]
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Posted in fate, happiness on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently been reading the work of Gretchen Rubin, a lawyer turned writer and happiness researcher. She started a blog call The Happiness Project in preparation for her book of the same name that is due to hit shelves in January 2010. Because of my own interest in the subject, I’ve started following her writing [...]
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Posted in music, New York City on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on Saturday, I noticed that the NY Philharmonic was playing a free concert at the Cathedral on Memorial Day. On Memorial Day I ventured up there around 7pm and was shocked at the line that wound all the way down 110th street to the [...]
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Posted in books, change, movie, play, theatre on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With such beautiful weather in New York today, I headed to the park to continue reading Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. At the start of chapter 16, Michael Davis opens with the line “sometimes life in like the movies, a story in 3 acts.” I’ve been thinking about that line, particularly with [...]
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Posted in career, economy, faith, fear, health, job, religion on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I found myself leaving the emergency room of St. Luke’s Hospital. I had developed a “subconjunctival hemorrhage” and a slight amount of “petechiae”. This is a fancy way of saying a very small blood vessel popped in my left eye and I had a few tiny red freckles around both of my eyes. I [...]
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Posted in business, economy, friendship, harmony, leadership, stress, work on May 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I love to talk and on occasion someone says something to me that’s so striking that I cannot let it pass without writing about it. A friend of mine recently had her supervisor tell her that she creates a work environment that is too harmonious. I was so stunned by this comment that all I [...]
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