The origin of the word is negative. In Greek, it means pain and suffering. In German, it relates to the heavy labor orphans need to do to survive. The Japanese have three synonyms associated with it - painful, dirty and dangerous. Almost always, we hear it used like this: "Hey, I'd love to join you
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Month: April 2007
It's so terrible as to seem surreal. To survivors and the families of victims, it must feel as if they'll never overcome it. It jolts all of us out of our normal lives and rams us face-to-face with a reality we seldom have to face. Thank God. We're swamped with opinions from every possible angle.
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Einstein said it was an illusion. Nietzsche stated that there were no facts - only interpretations. Picasso was very far from it when he expounded that everything you can imagine is real. Today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, a meditation on the nature of reality. A few weeks ago, I sat down with my
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