Renaissance Man (not the movie)

For my regular readers, I apologize for this being posted a bit late today (not really a morning meditation, anymore). Truthfully, I just cried my way through “The Notebook.” If you haven’t seen it, have a box of tissue ready. It actually is an ideal segue into what I wanted to blog on anyway: the [...]

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We’re All Human

I did it this week. I thought I was fine. But I wasn’t. And the worst part is that I was in denial about it. The bar exam got to me. But it didn’t just get to me: it got to me. I broke down. I admit it. I’ve been trying to sugarcoat everyone else’s [...]

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Mating Rituals

It’s funny how some things evolve. And in the same vein, how some things never really ever die out. This one came to me as I was walking my dog the other evening. I could see a 20-something guy coming down the road on his little trick-type bike… nothing more than biking down the road. [...]

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Music of Our Lives

I once heard music described as the international language — something that transcends life, love, even war (see: West-Eastern Divan). Generally speaking, most of us associate music with things we have done or particular memories we have. And every so often we randomly attribute, or assign, music to places, people, or events that make us [...]

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Assumptions

A gentleman I got to know spring semester pontificated one evening (ad nauseum, I might add) about how it bothers him when people make assumptions (about him, about things in general). I sat back and listened to him rant about how a professor made a general comment about how people in the room had either [...]

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