What am I doing now?
I regularly hear ideas about improving relationships that are not in A Clueless Man’s Guide To Relationships. Many of these ideas need vetting. I also have my own recent ideas about relationships, which usually benefit from a cautioning second opinion.Here you will find more thoughts and ideas about relationships––and with your help some helpful suggestions that all of us can use.Fine Tuning Relationships
Turtles All The Way Down
One of my favorite stories, probably apocryphal, is about a little old English lady at an astronomy lecture. The lecturer described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of an immense collection of stars––our galaxy––and gravity and … [Read More...]
In Memoriam (at The Spot)
Love is acknowledged in many ways and I get happy when I find a new one. The Spot is a great walk-up burger joint two blocks off the beach on Linden Avenue in Carpenteria, California. I eat there every time I visit my father. The people at The Spot don’t know me from Adam, but if I lived in … [Read More...]
Why Doesn’t The Thought Count?
Isn’t it the thought that counts? Usually not for much! Was it a man who invented the rationalization “It’s the thought that counts” to cover his failure to do something important? Or was it a woman who invented it to cover for a man’s failure? Either way what’s important is that … [Read More...]
Everything Else Matters
Harmonic Convergence
In 1987 a free-spirited woman invited me to a harmonic convergence. I didn’t know what a harmonic convergence was, but she was an interesting person with whom I wanted to spend time and I was happy to learn something new. This harmonic convergence, I learned from Wikipedia, was a synchronized, worldwide meditation … [Read More...]
Bungee Jumping
The road from Chitna to McCarthy, Alaska, follows, in fact is, seventy miles of the defunct Copper River & Northwestern Railway bed that carried copper ore from the Kennecott mine near McCarthy to steamships at Cordova. The tracks are gone now and the sleepers and many spikes and nails are covered with too thin a layer … [Read More...]
Garuda
The Tillum Gallery is in Mas, Bali, Indonesia, between the villages of Kuta and Ubud. It is in a typical Balinese home that seems to be only a garden until you understand the function of its many pavilions and small temples. A guide greets you at the gate and shows you the house, leading you past the seated wood carvers to … [Read More...]
