I’m a wiseacre seeking to become a wise man. I’m giving myself another twenty-two years and five months for this transformation. I wasn’t wise at twenty-one, or forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy-five, maybe there’s hope for me as a centenarian? If I last that long? And can remember anything? Yeah, I know, probably not. In […]
We live in a culture that measures value by velocity—how fast we move, how much we produce, how many tasks we check off. In such a world, stillness is often mistaken for passivity. It’s easily dismissed, even feared. Yet stillness is not the absence of action. It’s a deep kind of listening. A way of […]
Wisdom! This it a difficult subject. How does one talk about wisdom? Looking up the definition says: the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment, the quality of being wise. I have to say, there is a different wisdom that I gained. Knowing that if I do something, create something based on a past […]
Ooh post-it plus mad scribbles, that’s how you know it’s genius 😉 I love a podcast! Not just listening to them but, even better for me is, being a guest on a podcast to share my story, form connections, sharpen my thinking and generally learn new things. On average I manage to guest on at least one podcast […]
It is natural to hold onto memories of what gave us joy, whether that involves experiences or images of friends and loved ones. However, when something, such as a chronic illness, makes the images fade, we either adjust to the new reality or pretend the changes haven’t occurred. Originally Published on https://stangoldbergwriter.com/
