UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

A few days ago, I was bestowed with a charming and old-fashioned gesture: A wish to “Have a Wonderful Weekend.” The problem is, the gesture was plastic. Literally. It was stamped on a bag of band-aids and toothpaste I’d purchased in a local pharmacy. Perhaps I am a cold-hearted SOB, [...]

When you sit together in silence and the music plays without a sound, you know there is a love no one has to work at. No one can replace. No one but a very few – perhaps no one else at all – can experience. It is yours. Everyone else can only [...]

It comes to us from truth tellers who invent The Rules of Life and package it for us as the gospel. And then we drink the Kool Aid and the longer it’s out there on the shelves, the more we accept it as Divine. Inarguable. Bullet proof.
To me, it’s all a joke. Who has the [...]

We are deep in the midst of the holiday season and a lovely time of year it can be.
But I have a question: Isn’t every day a holy day? Do holy days have a season or is life a string of holy days?
Actually, I firmly believe the latter is true. Is there ever a day [...]

It is ironic that from the earliest days of our cognizant lives, we are programmed to fear its end. Especially, the last five minutes.
This entire notion, this ripe fear and in many cases dread, is preposterous. We have no idea where we came from, and why we arrived in the world, but we are certain [...]