Archive for April, 2009

Lowland (career haiku #1)

         
 
 
          Awakened—
when the ice cap
          flooded the market
                              ~Achilles

 
 
On occasion, I will publish works of poetry and visual art by various writers and artists who shine light on the human condition and the long-term impacts of our individual and collective career choices.

The Elephant in Our Head

When it comes to making decisions, there are thinkers doing it one way, feelers another.  Thinkers are like economists, they use logic to calculate the probability of their happiness.  Feelers go with their gut hunches, and as it turns out, so do most thinkers.
About 200,000 years ago, an evolutionary advancement was added to our “primitive” [...]