Chasing Dreams

Life is truly fascinating. I mean everything is relative or gray , perception is the only thing that is black and white. I look at myself, through the judgmental black and white lens of impatience and wonder why it is that I am not the successful sought after photographer/writer I set out to be when I left advertising. I look and judge comparing this venture to previous leaps in my life that were more successful. So as I was researching some trivia one day I had an epiphany, standing in the middle of Times Square in NYC with yellow cabs, delivery trucks and bicycle messengers whizzing by. It may appear as if I’m standing still and not moving but all I have to do is look up at any building and notice the clouds moving behind them, except the clouds are not really moving it’s the earth rotating, it’s me moving on this spinning rock from morning to noon to night. What’s even more fascinating is the fact that although we appear to be rotating just a bit faster than a snail's pac...

Ok so I haven’t blogged in a while but it’s certainly not for lack of subject matter. We are living in the truly historic times; times that our grandchildren will ask us with wonder what it was like to be alive then. After stepping back from the brink of what appeared to be economic oblivion on a global scale, America is remaking herself… she is engaged in the most epic make-over which started with the election of Barack Obama and was punctuated with the passage of the health-care bill, both monumental historic events. Blogging about the fantastic meal I had at Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem a couple of days ago just seems too trivial for these times. I mean President Obama is signing nuclear disarmament treaties, Supreme Court Justice Stevens is stepping down and the Stock market is moving into really strong territory again but all I can think about is that brisket, chicken and ribs that was smoked to perfection before being slow cooked and anointed with a savory thick sauce that was the ver...