https://www.happyherald.com/articles.sec-8494-1-life-101.html Most of us have seen movies or television shows in which a criminal or a suspect in a crime cooperates with the police or the FBI, and gives information on another criminal or suspect in exchange for freedom from conviction and jail time.]]> My wife has a fork that she loves in our condo on the ocean in South Florida. She also has a fork that she loves in our home in the mountains of Woodstock.]]> Watching “Seinfeld,” the greatest sitcom in television history, I can’t help but think of Socrates, Shakespeare, the Buddha, and Lao-Tzu, among the greatest minds in world history.]]> Birds, while being among the most graceful of God’s creatures, do not have large cranial mass. In fact, human beings who are not gifted with much intelligence are said to have birdbrains.]]> Some of the love songs from Broadway and Hollywood musicals speak of the intoxicating freshness of falling in love, in language that transports its characters to glimpses of a higher life.]]> That’s because later is the favorite word of the avowed procrastinator. For procrastinators who speak Spanish, the favorite word is mañana.]]> The sitcom about nothing is very much about something, especially Western and Eastern philosophy. ]]> The history of baseball is murky to say the least, but we do know that the game was being played in the Greenwich Village section of New York City as early as 1823. We also know that by 1866, it had been declared the national pastime]]> People use language unconsciously. The person who wants to lose weight should focus on what she can consume in her eating regimen, rather than on what she can’t. Tell the subconscious mind you can’t eat pizza and ice cream, and it will soon start sending urges to eat them both at all-you-can-eat pizza buffets.]]> When I’ve taught my “Spirit and Money: Prospering by Doing what you Love” workshop, for two decades, I’m amazed at the high percentage of people in the room who are uncomfortable with marketing, and downright terrified about selling]]> Persistence and Success]]> The great library of ancient Alexandria is contained more or less in your pocket. Steve Jobs made it his job to see to that. The Library of Congress can be found with a click or two of your Android. A wonderful college education can transfer a lot of that knowledge from your phone to your mind. These days we call it downloading. ]]> You learned as a small child in elementary school that the Three Rs would prepare you for life. Those Three Rs, of course, were reading, ‘riting (spelling obviously wasn’t one of them), and ‘rithmetic (neither was pronunciation).]]> A delicious self-esteem exercise I love is called a Helpless Day, a teaching in Sondra Ray’s Loving Relationships Training. It’s a day you’ll laugh, cry, and feel like a king or queen. ]]> In our vast cable television landscape that features some thousand or so channels, there is a thin niche of networks dedicated to programming from days gone by.]]> Why would we associate one of the sweetest states of consciousness known to men and women with something as dangerous as falling? What good ever possibly came from falling? Falling on a tennis court can twist your ankle.]]> The other night I screened “Being John Malkovich” for my niece, who had never seen it before. I think it was the fifth such screening for me. In the fantasy comedy, people paid $200 for the experience of somehow being inside the mind of the actor for 15 minutes at a stretch.]]> The first three-and-a-half weeks of December is the season to be jolly. This is obvious, of course, for Christians – who commemorate the 25th of the month to the celebration of their savior, Jesus the Christ. For those of the Jewish faith, Chanukah typically shows up during that same period, albeit its date varies from year to year, being based on the Hebrew calendar.]]> I find her fork fetish amusing. After all, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein, “A fork is a fork is a fork.” Right? Well, maybe not. The more I think about it, the more I find her fork thing charming and conscious. The woman loves these forks. And love, as Lennon and McCartney sang, “is all you need.”]]> The great library of ancient Alexandria is contained more or less in your pocket. Steve Jobs made it his job to see to that. The Library of Congress can be found with a click or two of your keyboard. A wonderful college education can transfer a lot of that knowledge from your phone to your mind. These days we call it downloading. ]]>