about life: Ever Changing Ourselves
- 01/26/10 02:53 PM
A baby in the cradle, a toddler crawling on the floor, a kid in a kindergarten, a student, a teacher, a father... Same body, different times. Do we stay the same person? Would I today shake hands with me in my terrible teens? Would I today despise myself in my terrible teens? Laugh at myself at my terrible teens? Heraclitus said "You can't step into the same river twice." It is different water, it is different time, it is different me. And whether I would or would not have shaken hands with me in my terrible teen, is not important. What important is whether I in my terrible teens … (22 comments)
about life: When We Become White Cranes
- 01/23/10 11:08 AM
Gary Woltal wrote "Will Your Legacy Have An Asterisk Beside It? He likes to corner us with questions like these. Just try to do a 25-point quickie on his blog about the legacy. My take on this was changing with time. I used to be concerned, but no more. I know people, who are grateful to me, whom I helped. I enjoyed the friendships I had, the love to my students in school and their respect... I am OK with that. I look around and I am stunned how the world has changed. We used to fade out. People lived for as long … (21 comments)
about life: The Art That I Am Missing
- 01/17/10 11:50 AM
There are things that are difficult to learn if you have not learned them before certain age, or if they do not come with the mother's milk. Like there is the time to learn reading, and once this time is missed, then you would never be able to go beyond a chimp. Learning to drive is one of these skills. Not that you can't do it later in life, but you never really excel in that compared to when you start at 15. You just have more trouble at mature age with distances and spaces. I am in the USA since 1991, nearly 1/3 of … (7 comments)
about life: The Language We Speak...
- 07/25/09 06:01 PM
Robert Swetz, a blogger and photographer, posted What is the best version of The Holy Bible? He was asking the advice of the members so that he could deal with as "pure" and as "original" source as possible. I never opened a Bible, so to me the topic was purely academic, but somehow it made me think and got stuck in my head like a popular tune. Not about the Bible, but about the change that time brings to life and the language. In essence, the language is like the river Ganga - remember: you can't enter it twice? Every time the river is different. In a rushing … (5 comments)
about life: Getting Old In Big City
- 03/11/09 06:15 PM
I think living in big cities is taking a toll on everyone, and especially older people. While in New York, I worked for 2 years in social services, and I remember those older ladies in Co-Op City coming to our office with mail that they were receiving, but did not have the patience to read. They were bringing me all that mail to sort it out. The funny thing was that I was an immigrant and they were mostly born here in the US. It was the pressure and the pace of a big city living, that made them angry. They did not expect anything good from … (5 comments)
A baby in the cradle, a toddler crawling on the floor, a kid in a kindergarten, a student, a teacher, a father... Same body, different times.
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