emotional intelligence

  • Hemingway’s Dance

    Just as a male Manakin woos a mate,Hemingway’s selfish, masculine exuberance was crafted,in its environment, to attract a specific type of woman.A woman who could evoke a particularfrequency of love in him. It was that exact frequency of lovethat fueled… Continue reading

  • Every Story Needs a McGuffin

    For the past couple of weeks I have not been able to do the writing I like to do. My favorite kind of writing is to be completely immersed in the process. From my perspective, it is what jazz musicians… Continue reading

  • A Crack Appears

    He considered himself a painter,.. but not an artist. Being an artist did not pay: each brush stroke invites a person to be offended; each choice of color risks being cancelled on social media. If a person wanted to eat,… Continue reading

  • Being Present

    Our intellectual mind is a boat that sailson the waters of our emotional energy. When the waters are too turbid,the boat sinks,.. or,if we are wise (afraid?), stays at port. The artist learns to modify the boatto be more effective… Continue reading

  • Finding Value

    How we die is an expression of how we lived. To value living more than life. Not selfish bucket-list beach-party living, but interwoven and embraced community living. There is no way to teach people how to find the value in… Continue reading

  • What Tangled Webs We Weave…

    A time comes when the veil drops and it becomes clear that a person who was pretending to be a psychologist, being so smart, knowing everyone better than they knew themselves, was only using jargon to justify their abusiveness and… Continue reading