The Psychology of Envy

I am on my way to a seminar about envy and jealousy at the Jung Center in New York City. I get on the #4 in the north Bronx and count on the digital map twenty-two, slow-crawl stations until we reach Grand Central Terminal. I think of the Seven Deadly sins, the theological soup that I was…

The Psychology of Money

During the last few years, I have developed an aversion to banks. Of course, this is somewhat irrational and probably due to the lingering effects of watching all the damage that banks and investment houses did to the economy during the financial meltdown of 2008 while I was working in…

6 Reasons Why We Struggle at Changing Our Lives

Leaving the Father’s Shadow

I was leaving our flat in North London on the way to school. I was thirteen and vaguely understood that on this day my father would be going to America. He was in the bathroom shaving with the door half ajar. He caught my image in the mirror and turned while wiping shaving cream…

machines in search . . . (of buried dirt)

buried dirt, down and hurt, who put it there, how could it breathe? a tree for they who…

In reverse

Are we
really
going backward? 
 — seeing
life led
and road traveled
unravel,
a reel
run in reverse:
a review
 — drama
karma — 
of heaven…