Posted by Bob Adamcik | May 30, 2018 | Contentment, Human Nature, Notes, Search | 0 |
Back home last evening, after six weeks traipsing around Portugal and Spain and Southern France. I wake up in the early morning here and fall into my old rituals…opening the house to the day, black coffee in the quiet...
Read More…but they don’t change a thing. The idea of dying makes me sad for simple pleasures I will no longer have. Yes, I’ve heard it: “No brain, no memories.” But I hope my own brain ticks along until it...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 29, 2018 | Belief, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Religion, Search, Society, Tribalism | 0 |
In Fátima, Portugal, two days now, and thinking again about religion and humanity. Indeed, one cannot help but do so here, where the entire town has evolved into a living irony, an immersive experience to the selling of...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 27, 2018 | Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search, Self-image | 2 |
In retrospect at the age of 66, I believe in all seriousness that the only life I was ever suited for is that of a professional loafer, with handyman jobs on the side. How the hell I maintained the façade of a professional...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 22, 2018 | Belief, Blog, Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Religion, Search | 4 |
So last Sunday, my neighbor sat down with his morning paper and never got up. They found him hours later, but from his new perspective, it could have been light years. He had been a neighborhood fixture, one of those guys that...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 28, 2018 | Book Review, Contentment, Happiness, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Time | 4 |
“Your time or your life!” (—Jean-Louis Servan Schreiber, in “The Art of Time.” Marlowe & Company, New York City 2000, 162 pages) The opening line of this readable little book cuts immediately to its core message....
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 11, 2018 | identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 2 |
In this excellent short article by Zat Rana, he relates the adage about living each day as if it were your last. Then he goes on to note that his own approach is slightly different. Each day, he imagines that he has five more...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 9, 2018 | Contentment, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Society | 2 |
Around 2010, I saw the movie, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Having enjoyed it’s predecessor, I’d looked forward to the sequel. Big surprise, though: In the years since the 1987 release of “Wall Street,” cinematography had...
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