When I got to Indiantown Gap refugee camp in Pennsylvania, it was the next chapter of the adventure that I so longed for, looking out of the second floor of my home onto Gia Long Street of Saigon during one of those long night curfews. But the restlessness from a refugee kid was gone, and I was ready to do the next thing. My father felt differently, and he was busy trying to figure out how to bring my mother over from Japan, having arrived there a few weeks before Saigon coll

After Thanksgiving my Nephew and Great Nephews suggested that we watch the movie Castaway . Had no idea how spiritual was the movie. We all need to feel hope as to be not alone on this blessed journey. Why is this movie about searching for the Real which is something I am certainly aligned to. Chuck had 2 things that kept him going: the pocket watch w his fiancé’s pix and Wilson the volleyball. They weren’t Real in normal state but under the current circumstances that Chuck

Guillermo del Toro’ Frankenstein needs to be watched in an IMAX movie theater and not in a living room. I was distracted while watching the movie by occasionally gleaning over Intelligence Being's Intro to my website and couldn't fully pay attention to the Netflix movie as well as feeling a bit sleepy. This is a movie that del Toro had spent an entire life time wanting to make since 7 yrs old and Netflix treated like a no big deal movie which is quite a tragedy. Certainly

A triumph for New England Liberal Arts education. I went to Bowdoin once to cover an American Football game for Amherst College newspaper. Beautiful campus but super cold in winter and all the way up North. Han also went there. Her favorite food there were lobster rolls. My best friend from freshman year was from there. No surprise that his wife is an Artist, his mother is a Great movie director and his father is an intellectual so Mamdani is all about the Real conn

Jay called me out of the blue on Friday. I was so happy to hear his voice. After Amherst the last time I saw Jay was when the Wall came down in Berlin and then after finishing my MBA in New York when I decided to not go down to Wall st to be w the big boys and started painting at the League w Frank. If Frank had watered the seed Jay planted it. No one creates alone and we all are descendants of the great Masters & Teachers of Past and Present receiving all the gifts of lo

Wed 5/1 Tonight I killed it. Broke the 1 min barrier :-) Friday 4/26 I haven't been swimming in a while. Forgot that by just slightly...