Just say no to implosion

For as bad as macroeconomics can get, they sure make life feel light compared to the despair that results from excessive self-absorption. Frida Kahlo's exhibit at the SFMOMA is a cautionary tale of the futility of remaining trapped in one's immediate experience. My friend Melissa remarked how about 90% of her work was self-portraits.

Given how important it is to have outside perspectives to ground you in reality, it is no wonder she was enmeshed so long with her near-canine partner.

"Sin Esperanza" (above) drives this home most poignantly in both image and title.

online stream of consciousness

ok ok - maybe it isn't "conviction" ....my last post evoked images of authoritarian leaders who had great conviction...or even W...

Perhaps it is "character" then which captures the essence of a leader (person) I can support ...and by that, I mean someone who is indeed willing to sacrifice image, power, personal comfort to do the "right" thing - while also willing to change his/her mind based on reasonable principles, rather than force the "right" thing to be his/her thing.

James Joyce could do stream of consciousness!

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Friends don't let friends blog badly! Love y'all, my peeps.


(but it's still in my 'drafts' folder ....I think it's funny so will just chuckle to myself ;-P....)

**Extra Extra: I've found love at last!!**

Thirty-eight years of searching and at long last, where I'd least expect it....

HALO THE GUIDE DOG!!

(and I'm a cat person! :)









As you may surmise, Halo is all about physical contact. But there's more to this dog that Bill from Schwab brings in to work once or twice a month: Bill "adopts" dogs like her for a limited period of time to get them trained to be guide dogs for the blind. Dogs like Halo (name is apt, in my opinion) are trained to always look out for their master and to have a heightened sensitivity to the environment rather than meet their own needs first. So not only are dogs like Halo selfless, but people like Bill - who take them in and grow attached to them, only to release them later to benefit others less fortunate - are equally selfless.

I'm not that selfless. I couldn't let Halo go if I had her!










Halo's sad pining look as I leave tugs at the heartstrings