“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”
Alan Alda in Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
I wonder what the corollary would be for reading… Real reading is a willingness to let the book change you? It doesn’t scan as well. It’s probably got the wrong rhythm to it. In a tweet (A [...]
I’m a big fan of Best Buy. I spend a LOT of money there for gifts and shopping etc. I do it because it’s convenient, reasonably priced, and the sales help is very friendly and helpful.
I HATE their new slogan.
It’s right there, under the big yellow price tag.
"You, Happier."
The implication is that by buying [...]
In my previous post I talked about the lessons I learned during a time in my life when I was dead-broke, working dead-end jobs to make ends meet and living with friends because I wasn’t making enough to support myself. I should point out that while I did learn things during that time of my [...]
… And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ,…Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way….Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won,…
JK [...]
In my previous blog I had a post where I said I’d lost my voice. I didn’t know what it was like until now though. I just thought I had lost my voice. Right now I’m adrift about what to do with this thing.
My previous blog was lost in a database accident. Partly carelessness, and [...]
