by PJColando | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Humans tend to fall into a trap of thinking that well-being is a zero-sum game. Disasters rip away the fallacy of self-reliance, to which Americans are prone. Disasters have laid bare our utter dependence on one another. We’ve experienced this before/after...
by PJColando | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Joan Didion’s famed opening line resounded the air as I took my first step into the slot canyon. I hoped I’d survive to tell this story. We’d read,...
by PJColando | Jan 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
At last we saw the latest Star Wars epic, Rogue One. Smash, bang, boom, whip fast, gee whiz, shazam! The film’s clarion through line, “Revolution is built on hope” renewed mine. Hope against hope. Yoda said it first, though I didn’t locate his...
by PJColando | Nov 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
The good news is that my knees didn’t buckle, bend the wrong way, or creak during Thai travel. The bad news evoked more revery than a single sentence… Fragile, cautious, in jeopardy. Not feelings I’d ever experienced before. Never a victim of...
by PJColando | Nov 25, 2013 | Purpose
It’s hard to be humble when you live in the Milky Way, part of a universe commanded into being. “Because I said so,” God would say if you asked, using every parent’s fallback refrain. It’s important to be humane as well as human in our...
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