Brian Weiner

I think we all feel comfortable when we know that our intellectual capabilities are on par with the people with whom we are socializing or meeting. The comfort of allowing that to be your pattern, precludes so many opportunities to learn from another. When I was a very little boy,…

Isn’t it interesting how we, as a species, are entranced by relationships and the interesting complexities that they bring to our lives? In the animal kingdom, there are countless examples of relationships born out of both love and friendship. Social Media was born out of the necessity to stay connected…

It’s always wise to listen to your heart.  I would tell you that it is seldom wrong, but that’s not true. Taking the safe path in life is certainly easier and it does not come with the same roller coaster experience as following your heart. But sometimes, the roller coaster…

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his…

Things are up. Things are down. Everything is escalating but everything is stopping. Trying to navigate a path through the convolutions of life is an arduous task. If a political party is not changing the landscape, then a virus or an economic change will be more than willing to disrupt…

What if, as my buddy Doug says: death is not an ending but rather, a change of address?  Since the dawn of organized thought, humanity has struggled with the unerring reality that life is finite. The fear of this eventuality has given way to more legends, more myths, more religions,…

I would go beyond the parameters of “a child” and rewrite this as to say: “you should never tell anyone that their dreams are foolish or outlandish.” Dreams are the stuff that catapult us into the unknown. They are the wind under our wings, the fuel for our inspiration and…

Have you ever read, “Tuesdays with Morrie,“?  Mitch Albom was a sports writer, struggling to find his voice. In the course of his early career activities, he decided to pay a call to one of his favorite teachers. This remains one of my favorite books, the lessons learned from Morrie,…

With very few exceptions, the art that preceded Leonardo was for the most part two dimensional. Leonardo mastered the art of sfumato and chiaroscuro. Sfumato, (from Italian sfumare, “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”), in painting or drawing, the fine shading that produces soft, imperceptible transitions between colours…

Tact, diplomacy, and salesmanship are inextricably intertwined. Winston Churchill was unquestionably an extraordinary man during extraordinary times and were it not for his unparalleled skills, the likelihood of the UK succumbing to Hitler was most probable. Yet, Winston Churchill was neither a paragon of virtue nor an example of good…