In the days and months that followed, I tried to find ways to mourn my father. I said Kaddish. I … More
Tag: Life
10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
I remember my first awareness of mortality as a child in Bulgaria. I was nine and my father was relaying … More
My Friend, My Life – Shakeel Badayuni (Poet/Poetry)
Your counting me as a friend, when I consider you my life itself, feels nothing short of a betrayal This … More
A final message from T. Boone Pickens
“Sonny, I don’t care who you are. Some day you’re going to have to sit on your own bottom.” I … More
Poetry/Poem – Dil Ki Khair – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
How long does my heart get to be still? How long do you make me wait? How long will you … More
MLK – Last speech (Smithsonian)
“I’ve seen the Promised Land,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. H
Grave of fireflies – Studio Ghibli (Japan)
Grave of the Fireflies is a story richly told, with all the ambiguity and second-guesses of the way life is … More
The Curse of Genius – Maggie Fergusson
Kim Ung-yong was a child prodigy in South Korea. Now a civil engineer in his 50s, he feels he was … More
The Unquiet American – Richard Holbrooke
As the life of George F. Kennan shows, individual, original thinking by one lonely person can sometimes illuminate and guide us … More
