A Universe of Things Unsaid

Dark Matter There is out there a universe of things unsaid, dark matter, things unseen, words unspoken, but nevertheless deeply felt. Thank you for the thought Even if you didn’t say it I felt it Deep with my heart Oz, December 2023 A lot of people have difficulty expressing themselves, about important things, like ‘I…

Irascibility

The Sum of All Fears — when you get a group of family members together, familiarity fosters fears that are amplified to the point where the slightest misstep can set them on a course for conflict. Yesterday, Oz, the irascible author of this blog, was talking about “The Sum of All Fears” in a Geo-political…

Lake Mornings

It was one of those quiet mornings in September at the lake, when the kids were back at school and the weekend partygoers had gone home and the only sound was that of a motor boat puttering into the cove and the sound of the waves washing against the shore. Oz is retired, at least…

Killing Clichés

“All that glitters is not gold.” A golden oldie, a cliché of long-standing If you are looking for the source of the quote, “All that glitters is not gold,” start with Archimedes, then jump to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, and finally settle on J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit which reverses the saying to “All that…

I Am Struggling

How can I keep my mind clear from pollution? Today’s Prompt: The Daily Stoic I am struggling, I am struggling.But, aren’t we all? Oz, March, 2022 The iphone is the modern day slave bracelet. Stephen King, an interview with Lee Childs, September 14, 2015 I Am Struggling Oz repeated this to himself. So many times…

Until I write it down

I swear, if I read the same poem one hundred times, a hundred times it is always something new. Like a poem, a walk in the woods is a pleasure in all kinds of weather. Different pleasure, for sure. Seasons change, the trees grow taller, walnuts and Osage Apples litter the ground, the Autumn leaves…

Showing Up

Ninety percent of success is just showing up. Woody Allen Oz on the Road Again Oz, the peripatetic author of this blog, is off to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for the wedding of his daughter. Oz is driving by car, alone again naturally, taking his time to think, to remember, to reminisce in peace about the…

I Love to Get Up

Maybe, this post should have been titled, “What I think, I am.” I’ll explain… eventually. Now, older and wiser, Oz, the author of this blog, loves to get up in the morning. Before the sun rises, still sleepy eyed, to stumble out of bed, to brush my teeth, to take a pee, to walk downstairs…

Oz on behavioral psychology

The problem, Oz observes, is that we are human. We get too emotional, act out of anger, and make mistakes. We err. It is only human, but to repeatedly do so is dumb. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel prize in Economics for behavior theory says, we should let computer do the thinking and make…

See What You’ve Been Missing

Seeing is believing, is what they say. But wait… Well known blind people like Helen Keller, Andrea Bocelli, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and yes, even the ancient Greek poet Homer teach us that we see with more than our eyes. We see with our ears, and our touch, and most of all with our hearts….