Residing at the southern most point of the continental USA I am constantly confronted by the unaccustomed south land salutation of SIR.  I hear it all the time and I look around and discern that it is directed at me. When I question why SIR I am told it is an expression of respect (to an older man).  Well you can imagine how that sits with me! Then out out of nowhere someone changes it up and throws BOSS at me.  It’s all very confusing. Just call me Fred (or Derf) :)

We approached the door to leave the store as a young man and woman were entering.He held the door for his friend as she entered and then motioned for us to come through the door as he held it open.

Metamorphosis has always been a theme of great literature, theater, film, and television. The most notable transformation of characters in movies include: Sherman Klump to Buddy Love in the “Nutty Professor”, Jack Napier to The Joker in “Batman” and Seth Brundle to a fly in “The Fly”.    

I think it's my iPad.  What’s yours?   I was counting devices the other day.  Between personal and work technology, I was up to over ten including accessories.

My niece got married this past weekend. It was a beautiful weekend filled with love and family.  It was also filled with numerous prepared toasts from the couple’s closest family and friends.   

Friday’s Gotham blogger suggested today’s commentary. Interestingly his Friday blog covered modes of community. He found interesting how I balanced multiple Zooms as Gotham Queens, (GQ) a group I “mentor” met Thursday. Gotham Zooms can run on average 90 minutes but when in person one might allocate up to two hours for many such networking sessions; some Zooms might run a bit more than one hour. That morning I needed to join a brief campaign meeting that would start one half-hour after GQ started.

Driving around, as I enjoy, I noticed new construction at a couple of locations. Very large buildings were being erected with no indications of what they were going to be. Maybe an office building? But no, there's a glut of office space now with everyone still working from home. Maybe a large community center? Library?   Well, I was wrong on all guesses. Both of these buildings turned into these huge storage facilities for consumers. We humans seem to collect stuff. So much stuff we need extra places to store it. What does that say about us?  

In today’s technologically sophisticated world there are myriad channels of communication.  To me, the best and most basic manner of communication is talking face to face, where you can look someone directly in the face and discern facial expressions (“Tells”) while taking in the words, gestures and eye contact.  My father’s number one rule of interpersonal judgment was whether someone looked him the eye. Very little else mattered to him as he took the measure of a person and, invariably, he was right on!