July 4 I was walking through The Mission in San Francisco, admiring the street murals. We turned the corner to head up to Dolores Park, It was a beautiful day and there were at least 1,000 people gathered there to dance and party together. On 18th Street, there in front of us was El Edificio […]
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My son and I arrived in Phoenix to 115 degree heat, drove up to Monument Valley, over to the Grand Canyon and then the Hoover Dam. All the while temperatures were at least 105. But none of these days reached the record-breaking heat that the workers on the dam experienced their first summer on the
My son, Gabe, and I are preparing for our annual father-son trip. This year, we will be in the American southwest. You can see our planned route above, starting in Phoenix, Arizona, and ending up in San Francisco, California. Along the way we will be visiting Canyon de Chelly, still being farmed by Native Americans
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My son and I visited the V Bar V petroglyphs outside Sedona, Arizona, Saturday. The rock walls contained over 1,000 of these ancient pictures, many on top of each other. We were greeted by a guide who used the contraption shown in the image above to explain to us how a handful of the pictures
My daughter Ruchi celebrated her fifth grade promotion this week. When I was in fifth grade we didn’t have a “promotion.” It’s like a graduation, preparing the youngsters for sixth grade. For one evening, Ruchi dressed up and put on a special dress. She was all smiles. Not the norm for a 14-year-old! I ran
My son, Gabe, and I are preparing for our annual father-son trip. This year, we will be in the American southwest. You can see our planned route above, starting in Phoenix, Arizona, and ending up in San Francisco, California. Along the way we will be visiting Canyon de Chelly, still being farmed by Native Americans
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We all have times in our lives when we are called to do something we never would have chosen, some great turning or milestone that comes to us as a fact of life, like the passing of a loved one or an abrupt end to a job, or some other trial that throws us so
Many in my family served in the armed forces and the intelligence community. While I prefer other solutions to our greatest challenges I recognize there are times when nothing less than a military response is required. I am grateful and beholden to those who step in harm’s way, on our soil or overseas, to ensure
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Fear is probably the chief inhibitor of great performance. It shows up in many ways for a wide variety of reasons. There are two important things to know about fear: (1) It can be an appropriate response to a threatening environment, and (2) It narrows your options, focuses your actions and inhibits both possibilities and
What is most important to you? If you don’t know what you want, someone else will be happy to figure it out for you! My reflections have recently brought me across the work of George Lakoff, an unabashedly progressive cognitive linguist who studies “frame,” sets of inter-related ideas, values and words that literally inhabit our
