I want to make sure and get this newsletter out to you all before the last minutes of before-work time pass, so I will be unusually brief. Yesterday was the celebration of Holi at the Hillsborough Krishna Temple. It was a happy day for me. I have had a fair share of tragedy in my life, and it was interesting to me to note how it took some internal work for me to just be in that happy moment without fast-forwarding to the point when "this too will pass." In times of sorrow or

The time has come to reflect on the year that has almost completely passed, introspecting and taking stock of who I was and how I showed up this year. This time of year is especially profound for me because my birthday is New Year's day, and as I age I find birthdays to be a good reminder to take a personal inventory. This has not been an easy year, but then again, maybe none of them have been. ;-) Yet as I was reflecting yesterday to a friend, there are those of us who consc

"Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high..." played the soundtrack in my mind yesterday as I looked at out the idyllic scene where I work. For those of you who are not musical theater buffs, these lyrics are from the super famous song composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera, Porgy and Bess. And because I just can't fail to mention greatness, I have to point you to this here link for a recording of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong