It is with joy and a new-found sense of energy that I begin a new journey for this blog.  Before I forget – you may now find this blog at http://humanbeingsanon.com.

I am currently experiencing the freedom and wonder of retirement.  I retired at the conclusion of 2012 and feel that I am now ready to move forward with this writing and with a number of projects that have been on hold for quite some time.

At my retirement I was gifted by friends with a copy of a book that I have referred to on numerous recent occasions as “the best book I have ever read!”  Published in 2000, it is not a newly published work but one that had not crossed my path before.  Some of what I will write about in the coming weeks and months will be responses to lessons I learned from this brilliant volume.  Written by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander it is titled The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life.  Originally published by the Harvard Business School Press, it is now available from Penguin Books.  I recommend it as a “must read” for anyone who is not already familiar with it.  There are many valuable lessons to be learned within its brief 210 pages.

I also plan to do some writing about music – especially the way that music is able to communicate in ways that the limits of words prohibit.  This writing has been triggered by the blog of a good friend and colleague whose writing may be followed at http://jimrigby.org.  A few days ago he posted the following: “A man has gone back and changed certain sad songs to happy just by moving them from major to minor key. He also took a happy song like Hey, Jude and completely changed it’s feel by shifting it to minor key. What is it in the brain that hears certain music as sad, and other music as happy?”  Jim’s post was written after experiencing an NPR piece on music which may be heard at http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=173832177&m=173843031.

It is my sincere hope that people will read and join the conversation by leaving comments and responses.  I look forward to building a community of people with diverse interests and backgrounds so that we might all learn from one another.  It is my intention to generally make a new post every other day, and I very much look forward to the coming weeks and months as we explore some possibilities for transforming our lives in community.