Ramblings from My Curious Mind
- May 2, 2019 would have been my mother, Irma’s, one-hundredth birthday. She would’ve been overjoyed knowing that we remembered her, lit a candle for her, and displayed her most beautiful picture for all the world to see.
- Being sick when you’re older, even with a common cold, is tougher to endure then when you’re younger.
- To get things done, you have to know who the decision-maker is.
- To get things done, you have to know who has the influence to get the decision maker to make the decision you want.
- Finding a great book can be totally transforming. It’s like meeting a new friend who can only be your friend for a brief moment in time. You want to treasure as much of your brief time together as you can, and learn as much from them as you can. You know they will always have a special place in your life, but it will be in memory, never to be experienced in the same way again.I loved you, “Normal People”, by Sally Rooney. Thanks for a great weekend.
- Very few surgeons are abstract thinkers
- Visiting New York City for a week. What’s better today than when I lived there in the late 60s? Cleaner, fewer junkies, no need for cash, safer, no dog poop, GPS very helpful, subways cleaner, Uber and Lyft really help, even more diverse, less smoking, better variety of food, 8th Avenue different: no prostitutes, it’s become Googlified.
- You’ve got to be very careful about choosing your battles. If you choose too many, you can be dismissed or excessively feared. Can easily be seen as abrasive.
- We forget that the success of nonprofits often is the hidden key to the health and well-being of an area.
- Some people, when criticized become like Anna in frozen. Except, they turn themselves into icicles rather than freezing others.
- It’s lonely at the top.
- If you’re raised in a doom and gloom household, it’s hard to ever feel safe and positive, no matter how much you achieve in your life.
- A toxic boss sucks the confidence right out of you.
- There are some institutions that looks so good from the outside that you wish you could be inside, until you get inside, and then you want to to get back out as soon as possible.