Many Of Our Troubles Are Chronic. Life

If There Were A God Of New York, It Would Be The Greek's Hermes, The Roman's Mercury. He Embodies New York Qualities: The Quick Exchange, The Fastness Of Language And Style, Craftiness, The Mixing Of People And Crossing Of Borders, Imagination.

We Are Driven By The Results Of The Big Bang, Billions Of Years Ago, Which Eventually Produced Life, Which Eventually Produced Human Beings, And So On. But Me? I'm An Accident - A Result - And Therefore A Victim.

Aptitude Can Show Calling, But It Isn't The Only Indicator. Ineptitude Or Dysfunction May Reveal Calling More Than Talent, Curiously Enough.

Attention Is The Cardinal Psychological Virtue. On It Depends Perhaps The Other Cardinal Virtues, For There Can Hardly Be Faith Nor Hope Nor Love For Anything Unless It First Receives Attention.

Until The Culture Recognizes The Legitimacy Of Growing Down, Each Person In The Culture Struggles Blindly To Make Sense Of The Darkness That The Soul Requires To Deepen Into Life.