Are you getting everything you can out of this life?
A self-less, feel-good blog about love, life, and work by career coach and existential adventurer, Cliff Flamer
Grassroots movements look very similar in the beginning:
A handful of people, tired but excited, sitting in someone’s living room or in a church rec room (thank God for churches!) on a weekday evening, big smiles and big ideas.
Not much gets done in the first meeting. It take… Read more...
One of the honors of which I am most proud is my high school yearbook award as Class Individual.
I was weird.
I used to wear purple suits, giant hoop earrings (in both ears, not just the left one), plaid MC Hammer crotch pants, used-car-salesman jackets, mismatched shoes, African p… Read more...
The idea of objective facts is slipping away.
We all used to work from the same set of finite encyclopedias, the very same elementary school principles. Good or bad, they were the same.
Now, there are so many sources, so many talking heads and talking articles coming at us through … Read more...
HATE cannot survive in the light.
It requires enclosed spaces . It forces us to see only the shadows of real things, but never the real things themselves.
HATE is clever. It is born where no one will look: in the echoing rooms of joyous friends holding hands and singing songs, offe… Read more...
I would like to thank my enemies – the dissenters, the faceless commentators, the backstabbers, the Yelpers, the rats, the arguers, the contrarians…
You force me to rethink my worldview, to review my blueprints one more time. At the very least, you inspire me to double… Read more...
A few years ago we were nearly robbed. I say nearly because we stopped them at the perimeter. My wife heard a banging, looked out the second-story window, and saw two young men standing in our front garden about to crawl through a hole in the fence. She yelled some expletives and… Read more...
Powerful people are unfaithful commentators. The story they tell is bound together by the desire to retain their pedestal. Who would give up a VIP box seat to sit in the bleachers? No one wants to do that and so power begets power – sometimes intentional, sometimes not.
So, … Read more...
We go through such great lengths to paint the inside of our rooms… It takes all day, we risk destroying furniture and floors. Taping’s a bitch. It gets much worse before it gets better, and it always takes longer than first envisioned.
But it’s worth it, don̵… Read more...
Sometimes, I resent the world for spinning.
I look around and I see people getting dizzy, falling down, and being crushed. I see them tumbling into the valleys so they can’t see over the mountains anymore, arms reaching up as the clouds move over them and plates shift under … Read more...