I glanced at Buzzfeed on my phone and it had interviews with the foreigners visiting the world cup here in the US. What was remarkable about what they said was both funny and reinforcing. They commented on how friendly Americans are. This was said by most of them. Others spoke about our great customer service. Still others spoke about the size and variety of our grocery stores. So large and so many choices. There was more positive news about our take-out places. They marveled at our drive thru units as well as our convenient shopping hours. They thought our fast foods were great and enjoyed the chicken and waffles. They even pointed out a few dishes they wanted to see back in their own countries. The size of all the portions amazed them. These comments weren’t confined to one area, the world cup is being played across the US so …

It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who wrote “the years teach much that the days never knew”. This definitely applies to one’s personal year. In Numerology, the personal year is a guidepost to the soil you will grow in during that particular year. It can be a year of planting (a number one personal year), a year of patience (the number two personal year), a year of harvesting (a number eight personal year) and a year of endings (a nine personal year). Once we know and understand our own personal year, we can work with the energy of that year. Without this knowledge, we may work against our own best interests by planting in an ending year or resting during a harvest year. We, then, wonder why things didn’t work out the way we planned.

Emerson was right, if we reflect and assess our lives over the years past, we see …

I had always found it unusual that in reading the obituary page, the first thing they mention about the deceased person is their birth date, parents, education, occupation, hobbies etc. They never say the name followed by the phrase “one of us”. So, last week, our beloved Cari, one of us, and my daughter-in-law, died from her 4 year battle with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS). (A very difficult form of blood cancer) It was a hard 4 years. She did have the bone marrow transplant 2 years ago. Some of you contributed to her GoFundMe page to help rip out everything in her home to have a sterile environment and replace flooring window coverings, air conditioner and more. You were generous and it helped in her care. When one has a bone marrow transplant you must stay in the hospital about a month, no visitors, no plants, no flowers, in complete …

In 2020, the world moved into a gradual feminine energy and focus for the years 2000 through 2999. This is a long 1,000 year process and will be launching a rise in female power around the world. The number two is a feminine number. (The number one is a masculine number.) I say it is gradual as it seems barely recognizable. It is until you look at the advances women are making in the world. As of early 2026, over 25 countries have women serving as Heads of State or Government, including Giorgia Meloni (Italy), Mette Frederiksen (Denmark), Claudia Sheinbaum (Mexico), Maia Sandu (Moldova), Samia Suluhu Hassan (Tanzania), and the Prime Minister of Japan is Sanae Takaichi. She is first female Prime Minister in Japan’s history. Notable recent leaders include Angela Merkel (Germany) and Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand). Remember today’s Middle East did not have a Renaissance as did Europe. …

We all at one time or another set out a goal for ourselves. Sometimes they work but often times they don’t. We tell others we tried something but it didn’t work. We believe goal setting is another executive coaching delight. It can be. Many people make a great deal of money teaching goal setting, prosperity consciousness, weight loss and too numerous to mention others. Why don’t they work in the long term? What goes wrong? Is it just wishful thinking? Many of these programs can be helpful for connections but years later the goal is not within reach. So we give up and say we tried that.

We can learn a great deal about goals and planning by reading “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. He has it down to a science. No general would go into the battle at dawn without a clear objective, a strategy to …

I seldom hear of people searching for their joy. I usually hear about the need to be happy, prosperous, healthy, contented etc. Joy usually is something you hear about at Christmas when we sing “Joy to the World…..” I never hear of people looking for joy. What is joy and is it the same as enjoying yourself. I have enjoyed situations and people but I never thought of it as my joy. Yet to have joy in your life is key to your wellbeing. Can we create joy in our lives each day? Did we forget it’s importance? I know I have.

I look at this year so far. In just two months my sister died 10 days after her husband’s death (his death was expected, hers wasn’t). On top of that my own daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January and my daughter-in-law relapsed with her very advanced blood …

Who is this person who seemed to come from nowhere and was able to win over a substantial number of New York City residents to become their next Mayor? I thought I would answer my own question and look into his blueprint. It is always revealing and can explain his attraction to the public.

His full birth name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani. He was born in Uganda of well educated Indian parents. His father was a college professor. At the age of 5 they moved to South Africa and later, at the age of 7, moved to New York City. Mamdani’s education seems to comprise of a B. A. from Bowdoin College in Maine with on focus on African studies. As best I can tell his work experience has been in New York City housing advocacy. I would imagine he will try to go after housing in NYC, probably trying …

I am entrenched in the World Series. I watched all the games of the Wild Cards and Post Season Divisional Championships. The World Series is the ultimate game and even better when my beloved Dodgers are in it. A friend and I don our Dodger shirts, get takeout and watch the game. It is exhausting as so much hangs on every play. We start the 3 game run tomorrow night in Los Angeles where we will be roaring for the “men in blue”. Apologies to all my other team’s fans. I have been following the Dodgers since they were in Brooklyn and I would listen to them on my radio in my darkened bedroom. It’s a family thing. My brothers went to as many games as possible in Brooklyn. So it goes way back.

I now look at all these sports teams and the numbers associated with this and many …

It’s theater and will keep you engaged and distracted. It is something to keep in mind that since 1980’s, we have had 15 government shutdowns. They hijack your attention and create an atmosphere that the sky is falling. Sooner or later the two parties compromise and it all comes to an end and we go back to the normal (the new normal). It makes for performance on all sides and the citizens wring their hands and act like this hasn’t happened before. It has and will continue to happen from time to time. The last shutdown was also during the Trump administration about seven years ago. We all survived.

As I have said in prior writings, we have 2025 and 2026 (until about August) where the people go through an extremely rough period and there is much suffering all the way around. We are working our way to a better …

If you look at America’s history, you see major defining moments when it seemed the potential for complete collapse of the democratic experiment was close at hand. We were born in revolution with a violent war preceded by protests and riots against the oppressive laws of King George. The revolutionary war and its’ aftermath was violent and heart wrenching. The loyalists to King George were people without a country. They were looked upon as traitors to the new nation and unwanted by the British themselves. These were trying times in the 1780’s. America was truly inventing itself out of bravery, and the need for freedom in all areas, especially speech and religion. This period would set up the ongoing 80 year cycle of America reinventing itself in order to get rid of old patterns that no longer served itself.

It was during this Revolutionary War period that America was inhabited …

I have always been intrigued by the history of empires as well as the history of ancient civilizations that have been forgotten or barely studied. If we read these histories, we begin to see a pattern of civilizations that were very advanced even to the point of using ancient high tech. Of course, it is easier to trace empires that have been in existence over the last 4000 years. When we do, we see the pattern of each lasting no more than 250 year. Even as the Assyrians could only advance with spears and walking as their main tools of warfare, they lasted about the same amount of time as more advanced empires. The British empire lasted 250 years with large ships, cannons, guns and more modern warfare. They conquered more land and countries but still lasted the same amount of time.

One of my favorites authors is Sir John …

by Wendell Berry

When despair for the word grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be.

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.…

As we move from day to day fixated on the man-made world and our house payments, inflation, tariffs, loneliness and fear, we forget our connection to the Sacred, Eternal and Divine. We forget that all of this stuff is stuff. We forget that our time here is a culmination of decisions we made or didn’t make, love or lack thereof, disconnect from our source and amnesia of our plan for our life. We have allowed ourselves to be seduced by urgencies versus importance. We mistake money for piece of mind. We operate on a competitive level instead of a creative level.

We have no enlightened leader. We have competitive individuals who have cut themselves off from the Sacred, Eternal and Divine and, therefore, can only lead based on winning, In studying Abraham Lincoln, one realizes how lucky we were to have him save us from ourselves and and who operated …

We are being consumed by threats to democracy, deportations, tariffs, conspiracy theories, Ukraine, Gaza, price of tomatoes and government layoffs, corruption, abuses of power and on and on and on. We think we are stuck in a downward spiral run off of relevancy by AI and drowning in social media. But, hark, a light shines on the hill!! America handles this drama well. It looks like we will never have our normal back or even our less than normal back. Instead we are experiencing the necessary shakeout while we create new or modify our existing institutions. It is an extreme shake out but this is what we do every 80 years. We are looking at what we have created since the end of WWII. This includes all the agencies created since that time, including the social programs we have created, the economic as well as the financial programs we have …

I have headline fatigue. Every day is another urgency or scare. What will happen due to the chaotic tariff situation? Immigrants locked up in more detention camps, price creep on food and services, doctors dropping out of Medicare, podcast crazies, crude, rude and vulgar behavior, flooding in Texas, heat wave, fires and droughts. Sounds like the sky is falling chicken little. It would appear so. It overwhelms people and leads to complacency.

This year and next are extremely hard for Americans. We just didn’t think we would have all this coming at once. BUT, we did vote a person who reflects our society. So, we will make it through all of this and more until we reach the end of 2028. Things don’t last forever–well death and taxes do–so this won’t last either. We just have to be wiser in our decisions and follow our own personal year energy and …

I keep striving in my mind to keep America’s greater plan in place. Today I was in a car search near my same busy route home from shopping. They are grabbing people out of cars or walking in a parking lot. When you hear that they (ICE) and Border Security are capturing criminals, think twice. Most of the people caught up in their stings are just going to work or schools or doctor appointments or coming home from the stores. Most do not have any criminal records. Even my daughter, who is Vietnamese and came on the famous Orphan Air Lift 50 years ago, carries her proof of citizenship. She is afraid to walk her dog. Her husband, who was born in the US, has parents born in El Salvador and Guatemala. He has to carry paperwork that shows where he was was born. It is not enough to have …

Robert Francis Prevost, also known as Bob, was born on September 14th, 1955. He has an excellent chart for the career choice in this lifetime. I am not a practicing Catholic but when someone has a blueprint like his, it is a cause for celebration. He is really a decent human being who has a big 11 destiny number from his full birth name. He is a worker of the light and can inspire many others. His ability to channel is a powerful gift. The number 11 destiny is known as the “peacekeeper”. It is the person who can see both sides of an issue. Again, an important quality for the role he plays.

His birth path is the number 7 taken from his entire date of birth. This is the path of the teacher of ethics, the thinker, the scientist, the person who wants to know how …