. In one of his many works of poetic genius, Robert Frost concluded his epic piece “The Road Not Taken” this way: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,,,I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Frost, when met with one of those life changing moments where life […]
.In her 2006 bestseller “The Ice Queen,” author Alice Hoffman‘s nameless main character is struck by lightning and loses the ability to see the color red. Later, when lamenting the time spent sweating the small things in life, she ruminates about how much she’d missed along the way. “How could I have been so stupid […]
. I spent a recent rainy Saturday watching The Notebook on Netflix for the 200th time (yes, I’m a sappy hopeless romantic). I love how Noah sums up his love for Allie. “Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like […]
. Einstein has been credited with saying, “creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.” I’m certainly no genius, but I might suggest taking Mr. Einstein’s assessment one step further. Creativity is also doing what no one else has done…or at least doing it with your own […]
. Jimmy Buffett muses in his 1978 hit single “Son of a Son of a Sailor” that he goes “out on the sea for adventure.” He paints a beautiful word picture as he describes “hauling the sheet as he rides on the wind that his forefathers harnessed before him.” As the summer days…and the tides…ebb […]
. Dubbed one of the most memorable songs of the 20th century, “Summertime” could easily be declared Nantucket’s own personal ballad. Because, after all, it truly is “summertime, and the livin’ is easy.” Thousands of great musicians have performed versions of the popular lullaby from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, but my personal favorite… […]
. In his 2007 Billboard hit single “Home,” by the album of the same name, Chris Daughtry stirs in all of us the longing to go home…”to the place where we belong.” Regardless of where life or travels take us, there’s no better feeling in the world than the sense of home and belonging when […]
. Winnie the Pooh and his wide circle of diverse friends spent their days reminding us of the importance of living life to the fullest and not sweating the small stuff. They managed to make beautiful memories and embrace life’s simple pleasures by focusing on what matters…being fully present, staying optimistic, sticking together and always […]
. There’s a great and memorable recurring scene in the 1979 Box Office hit “All That Jazz.” Each morning, the star of the movie, Joe Gideon (played by the multi-talented Roy Scheider), pops a couple Alka Seltzer in a glass, squirts a few shots of Visine in his eyes, looks himself in the mirror and […]
. Who can forget the opening few minutes from the heart-wrenching 1998 blockbuster, Saving Private Ryan. In theaters across the country, nobody breathed for minutes on end as we watched in horror Hollywood’s realistic depiction of the historic invasion. Later in the movie, during their search for Private Ryan, Corporal Upham confides in Captain Miller […]
