Belief Without Action is No Belief at All
A friend once told me, “your only job is to believe.” And yes, once upon a time, I believed in Santa Claus and magically on Christmas morning I got what I had asked for. However, I’m not five anymore and if my job as an adult was only to believe, I’m confident I’d be continually disappointed. Yes, believing in something is vital today’s complex and dysfunctional world, but to believe in isolation is incomplete, a dangling participle, waiting for the the antecedent to take it’s rightful place. Belief without action might as well be no belief at all. As I see it, the older we get the more we have to have substance to support our beliefs. Just sitting around idly waiting for something to happen just because we...
Read MoreThe Class of 2015
Over the past few weeks, my Facebook feed has been full of back to school photos. Kids starting 1st grade, 7th grade and even a college freshmen. I drive through the streets of DC where at GW and Georgetown I’m greeted with “Welcome Back Students” signs. It’s an annual rite of passage for parents and kids alike. An event I haven’t participated in since Fall of 1994. But this year, I came across a post that gave me pause: a reminder that there’s not only a new generation of back to schooler’s, but a whole new mindset. A few of my favorite’s from the full list: O.J. Simpson has always been looking for the killers of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Women have never been too old to have children. Ferris...
Read MoreIs “The” Making a Comeback?
Lately I’ve noticed that “the” is all over entertainment. In a world of high creative-types, I’m bewildered on the blandness of the “The” statement. It’s a cop out for being original in the hopes that the latest “The” will be the next daytime hit (aka The View) or in the case of movies, an Oscar nod (aka: The GodFather, The Graduate, The Exorcist, The Insider). Yet, there’s something about the most recent boom of “The’s” that doesn’t ring in my ear, success. The Five The Chew The Talk The Help The Revolution After all, once upon a time there was a little web project, named, The Facebook. Makes me wonder if dropping “the” helped it’s cause to become a worldwid
Read MoreNational Bucket List Day
I expect we all have a bucket list somewhere written in the depths of our brains that we often think about in between the chores of our everyday and seemingly common life. I’ve found; however, that it if I write it down, I have a greater chance at actually achieving it, and thus pursing my path to something great. It’s something about seeing it on paper and physically checking it off makes me feel accomplished. Yes, I’m a sucker for “to-do” list on a sticky note that stares at me all week before I break down and either do it or throw the note away in protest that for that week, I just wasn’t in the mood to be that organized with my life. Sorry, I digress. I believe a bucket list evolves as we do and things come on and off...
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