Choose Your Future
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”— E.L. Hartley One particular moment from the past has replayed in my mind over and over in recent month
Everything Is Heavier Right Now
The hardest part of the moment we’re living through isn’t the wait—it’s the weight. What a short time ago were the simplest everyday decisions now feel heavy with risk. Do
What I’ve Learned (So Far)
Many years ago Esquire magazine launched a series called What I’ve Learned, featuring famous people reflecting on their experiences and the lessons gained from them. In my previo
A Different Time
Last weekend—March 7th and 8th, 2020, just a week ago—suddenly feels like a different time. On Saturday our son brought our grandson and granddaughter over so he could take a l
Move Me
As readers of My Heart Sings the Harmony know, I really only have one set-in-stone requirement for any music that I’m going to choose to make part of my life: move me. Make me fe
A Hanukkah Story
We’ve talked about karma before. I tend to be a pretty grounded person from day to day, but as I’ve written elsewhere, I also find that sometimes the only reasonable thing to d
A Series of Moments
Life is a series of moments. The moment you took your first step. The moment you fell and split your chin open. The moment you landed a job that filled you with purpose and confide
Legacy
“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the ch
The Box
The box has sat on the bottom shelf of one of four tall bookshelves in my office at work for almost exactly 10 years now. It’s a standard-issue banker’s box, white with black l
Ohana
In the Hawaiian tradition, ohana is a word that straddles and blurs the line between family and community. Your ohana is your intentional family, the people gathered around you who