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Nov.21.2012
This post began with a recognition that I had not taken the time I needed to stay on top of what I was rushing around doing: not staying mentally flexible, emotionally resilient or even clear about where I was going (let alone how I was going to get there). It eventually developed into a...
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Oct.28.2012
Three weeks ago, right after my last entry, I let my activity level explode, causing the cross-town Garden litterally to invade our own little garden.
I devoted so much of my attention and psychic energy to the planning and other needs of the Garden, to the political campaign I was working on, and...
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Oct.07.2012
There is never enough time -- even in retirement. One measure of that is the length of time since my last blog posts, which were supposed to be for my mental health and yet have been allowed to lapse in the mad rush of juggling innumerable other activities -- effectively valued as higher...
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Sep.29.2012
When Kwame was born two months pre-maturely, no one was sure he would survive; he spent his first month in the outside world inside a neo-natal intensive care unit.
When he came into our family at Christmas time, in a perfect world he should not yet even have been born for another month. And yet,...
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Sep.28.2012
Building Cultivating Mountain
Stone upon stone I'm rebuilding the wall where the world comes in touch with our garden,Refilling the hole where a dead but once-evergreen giant has recently stood,Preparing the ground to receive a new tree. Clearly, nothing's forever except,(One can hope) for the...
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It is not power that corrupts, it is fear.”
—Aung San Suu Kyi, published with news reports of her Nobel Peace Prize Award
About Gary
I'm the retired U.S. business manager of a Canadian multinational corporation and later CFO of a major nonprofit performing arts organization, now providing the benefit of my professional experience pro bono to several nonprofit organizations.
A husband of 43...