MY CIRCUS, MY MONKEYS
A few years ago, a Polish proverb hit social media. This saying was everywhere all of a sudden: “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” I’ve seen it on T-shirts and greeting cards, on coffee mugs and baby onesies. It’s catchy…
FAIRY TALE LIFE
“Chaos is a friend of mine.” - Bob Dylan I was listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast a few weeks ago, a series of episodes in which he deconstructs Disney’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.” Gladwell and some…
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
The yellow brick road starts our as a spiral in the movie, The Wizard of Oz. It’s like an echo of the tornado that dropped Dorothy in this strange, magical, technicolor world. She is still a little disoriented as she…
HIDE AND SEEK
“God is the idea of unlimited supply which [people] keep covered so deeply within their minds.” - Emma Curtis Hopkins I’ve always really liked this quote as a definition of the Divine. I usually trot it out during pledge campaigns…