A Day in the Life of Chaos

  One of my favorite films is a forgotten movie called Sneakers with Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley.  It is a bit of a guilty pleasure but Kingsley plays a man bent on changing the world so that all government secrets are revealed.  He planned to accomplish his devious act utilizing a piece of hardware Kingsley developed through his company Setec Astronomy which is an anagram for "too many secrets."  The plan was amazingly prescient considering the notorious Julius Assange of Wikileaks who has been obtaining classified government documents and leaking them to the press and general public.  It seems like with computers dominating our lives almost nothing is private anymore.  We lay a digital trail everywhere we go.  For myself I have just come to grips with the fact that I will never run for Congress.  On second thought knowing what I do about many of those in Congress perhaps I should. The other day while dining on Mexican food I lent my son my cellular telepho

Malgosia... A long lost friend returns I have spent a lot of time and effort in my life looking for traces of my past lost in the fog of passing years.  I don't know why I do it, most people are just content to let it go.  Still, I suppose my personal philosophy that we are the compendium of our experiences has had something to do with it.  I think that every challenge, sadness and joy that life has thrown at us makes us who we are as a person.  I think in some ways I am constantly undergoing a state of personal re-evaluation as I look back and trace the scattered lines of my mind in an attempt to find sense and consistency that likely doesn't exist.  While this may be true, it doesn't stop me from trying. I think I also harbor the hope that in some ways those that have been formative or developmental in some way have felt the same about me.  That the feeling was mutual.  Sometimes I have peered behind the curtain of the past simply to say goodbye in a way I never di