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So it’s Memorial day here in the states, one of those days when most people are firing up the grill, taking in a street fair, going to pay respects at a cemetery, or some combination of all of the above. And for me it’s a day to get up, scribble on 3 pages of unlined [...]

Marking Time
The last month was pretty serious indeed, and I’m not unhappy to see it leave. I’m talking lunar months here, as the calendar we generally use seems useful to me only because it’s the one most of us are using. 
The calendar on my wall, the one I use when I want to see what’s [...]

so now what?
so you’ve assessed the trueness of your wheel, and you’ve discovered your strengths and your weaknesses, the areas where you are covered and the areas where you are bare, bald, ready to pop, flat! and you’ve set yourself some goals, spread out over time. and maybe you’ve even compared your goals to your [...]

 
the 5am question
nothing like waking up at 5am after a night of serious dreaming to get one thinking about what they would really love to be doing right about now. one being me. how about you? what do you really want to be doing right now?
and since i dive right into morning pages after pulling [...]

 
through the looking glass
if alice peers through the looking glass and sees the jabberwocky, the walrus and the carpenter, and tweedledum and tweedledee, all representations of an incomprehensible adult world, then who is on the other side of the glass looking at alice (other than elvis costello!)? and what are they seeing?
one of the great [...]

 
numbers and chaos
number theory, from its humble beginnings as “one, two, many” has always existed as an attempt to make sense of the world we live in, give us some firm mental ground to walk upon, and, when we are lucky, offer us some predictive value. ironically enough, the field of mathematics has become a victim [...]

 
downtown
it’s 7:15 am and i’m sitting in the “lower level” of the starbucks outside arlington station, boston. funny thing that i live in boston technically, and spend almost no time here. maybe that’s because roslindale, my community, is off the subway, so it’s either pony up the big bucks and take the commuter rail, deal [...]

fork in the road
after 9 months of waking up (almost) every tuesday morning at 5 am in order to do my mp’s and take my heart med before showering and rushing out the door in order to take the drive to temple sinai in brookline, 9 months in which i learned all the short cuts into and [...]

When health is absent,
wisdom cannot reveal itself,
art cannot become manifest,
strength cannot be exerted,
wealth becomes useless,
and reason is powerless.
herophilus 300 b.c.
thanks to daniela haskara for the herophilus quote, and may i close the loop by saying that if you ain’t got reason, wealth, strength, art,or wisdom, you ain’t got your health. which shows in my mind [...]