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Losing Someone Twice (STUB)
We use the phrase “losing a parent” when they pass away, but often we lose them years earlier, due to dementia. By the time they pass away, you’ve already lost them for many years. Random thoughts:
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The Price You Pay
One of the greatest tech innovation of our time is Shazam, a smartphone app that listens to a song, and in seconds gives you its details. (Nobel committee are you paying attention? Try it sometime!) Anyway, I was watching an episode of the TV show “Landman“, when they played a song that struck me as…
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Everything has a Price (STUB)
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How to chair a meeting (OUTLINE)
Or “The wisdom of Linda Hausdorff” When I became the president of my temple, I asked a friend how I should run the monthly board meetings. She gave me a few, simple rules:
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Why do people keep trying to jam a square peg into a round hole? (DRAFT)
When someone doesn’t like the way you do something, they will comment and tell you the “correct” way to do it. When you don’t do it the way they like, they keep telling you how to do it “right”. Expand on… Do they listen to you when you tell them why you do it your…
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Did they really live happily ever after? (DRAFT)
As a child I remember being told the story of the “The Princess and the Pea“, a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Like all fairy tales, they lived happily ever after. That made sense to a child with limited world experience. Limited experience with people. But as an adult, I realize that in real…