“Everything happens kind of the way it’s supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can’t control it. Looking back, you can’t say, ‘I should’ve… ‘ You didn’t, and had you, the outcome would have been different”. Rick Rubin Ok – it’s that time of year again. Time to look back at … Read more
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” Yogi Berra At around this time last year I was following my usual custom of looking ahead to the coming year and outlining – in a post to this journal – the plans and projections that we were making therefore. When I first sat down to … Read more
I posted to this forum a little under a year ago a somewhat reflective missive entitled ‘Time Passes’. The subject of that post was this very journal; the trigger for my writing it the circumstance that the ninth anniversary of my very first blog post had then but recently occurred. I pondered the actuality that … Read more
“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” Irene Peter Those who receive these postings by email digest will have found yesterday in their inboxes an unfamiliar message which may have caused in them them some alarm. There is nothing to worry about – but I am sorry that this strange new message … Read more
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Marcel Proust I receive a sharp reminder once a year of the passage of time… and in particular of the passage of time since I started writing this blog. That reminder comes in the form of the renewal demand from … Read more
Well – who would have thought it? It is to be hoped that the gentle reader might indulge me just a little if – with not the slightest intention of sounding my own shophar – I express my astonishment at the relative longevity of this enterprise… …by which I refer, of course, to this attractively … Read more