Dry Cleaners, Shower Curtains & Existential Moments

 
I got to the dry cleaner late the other day near closing time, and as I walked to the door with that sinking feeling, he showed up at the front door to the store with my really important shirt in his hand.  “Saw you coming,” he said, “thought you might need this tomorrow.”  Wow!

I have come to realize that as much and as often as we think that

The Guru at the Dining Room Table

“Guru Maharaj Ji. There can be no biography of him. Facts are few, stories many. As he said, he was ‘nobody.’ He gave no discourses; the briefest, simplest stories were his teachings. Sometimes he sat in silence, but bliss and peace poured down on us. He said one can reach God while fulfilling his or her duties as a householder: as he, husband, father and village headman gave living demonstration. He encouraged

Speech or Presentation

“If you ain’t got no axe, you can’t cut no wood!
Gentlemen, you got to use the right tool for the job!”
—John Henry Eaton (1790 – 1856)
American Politician, Diplomat

Today let’s focus on the two different mindsets that you might employ to solve two different communication assignments: the Speech and the Presentation.

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An “Art” to Beginning

In the beginning, there was a bad joke.
And no one remembers what came after…

There’s an awkward, dark moment before a presentation begins – whether in person or virtual… Disaster lurks there. The audience is wondering how to spend the next forty minutes…

Not everyone in

Shovel & Pink Tights

The circus came to town. Dad and I made the trip to see the parade down 4th Avenue. Later that night we saw the Main Event under the Big Top!  The Elephants were my favorites — a long line of them. There, sitting atop the leader, at the head of the column, was a girl in pink tights and a satin leotard, her blonde hair pulled tightly back in a jaunty pony tail!  She had the best job in the world! […]