My colleague Tony felt inspired enough to write this about me,
three months after I left our company Money-Media.
I'm touched.

The Ghost of Dennis Slade ( Read more... )

Contrarian.
I live my life in full opposition. I go against a grain I cannot see.

Loneliness.
To have no one else to rely on is my nature. It is all that I know.

I am The Other.
It's who I am, it's who I've always been. To be one of many, to fit in, seems unreal.

This is me:
Outsider.
Contrarian.
Alone.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

(as I sped from Brooklyn
to Manhattan looking for
my father)

Conversation
by Elizabeth Bishop
The tumult in the heart ( Read more... )

Another "last-minute" decision to do something yields another cool moment: a chance to meet and get a picture with Nikki Giovanni:

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