There he was. Standing in the doorway. His world encompassed nothing more than what was eye level right in front of him and the sounds in the air. There was the carpet, the furniture, the sound from the stereo…he kind of moved up and down and swayed back and forth to the music…and his best […]

February 25: But we have today, you are here now, was his answer. And so it was.We sat on the floor playing with all the toys that were scattered around the family room. There were pirate figures, a pirate ship, a castle with dragons and knights, a lot of horses and other animals which included […]

Her eyes are piercing. It feels as if she is looking right through you to some spot deep inside.The collar of her shirt is dusty and worn. You might even say frayed.Behind her is a yak or a cow or ..it is hard to tell since the picture cuts it off.Her age? Not good at […]

February 24: You see it so often that it doesn't even register yet every once in a while it does. And when it does it makes you wonder what is going on in that life. It is a busy day and the traffic is heavy.There is a backup on the highway,turnpike,exit ,entrance, or any street […]

Call it a fog or a mist. It may just be that we were walking through a cloud. But there it was. North of Tangboche and south of Dangboche in the Khumbu region of the Himalayas. We wandered into a rhododendron forest. A forest of Rhododendrons at 12,000 feet or more. So many different colors. […]

February 23: And then there is the snow leopard. That beautiful creature that lives in the mountains of Asia. Elusive, almost mystical in its coming and goings. Rarely seen, silent, beautiful. But also The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattiessen. An incredible read. A journey of adventure,travel, enlightenment and a read that changed me. He searched […]

February 22: Finding a book written long ago is like finding a buried treasure. It is as if you went into an old abandoned house and opened a hidden box found in the attic. You dust it off , open the lid, see this book and find answers, secrets revealed and thoughts preserved by a […]

But how old are you anyway. Let's say that you didn't know the year you were born. There wasn't the yearly celebration of a birthday. The color of your hair was of no concern. A line or two was just life etched on a face and nothing more.There was no mortality charts, estimates of life […]

February 21: Rosebud. One word. One image. One fleeting moment.Yet it is the one that may define a person, a life, a direction and haunt a person for a lifetime. Maybe that is why the movie classic Citizen Kane has always been a favorite of mine. The last word of a dying man is rosedud. […]

The tram took me up to one of the higher peaks in the Chamonix ski area. But it was not winter in France. It was a warm summer day. I was escorted by my guide who carried the chute with him. He did not speak English. I did not speak France. We each knew a […]