@tarazkp

<div class="text-justify"> All governments go through pandemics and wars, dictatorships, famines and natural disasters - and still they manage to keep the lights on. Well, almost …

<div class="text-justify"> > Maybe you want to put some pants on. My daughter called to ask if her friend could visit after school and I said that first she had to verify with th…

<div class="text-justify"> A friend messaged me late last night to ask if I was seeing the Northern Lights, but I was here on the couch, unaware. Being on the couch a lot seems to…

<div class="text-justify"> My legs are recovering from the fasciotomy operation I had a week and a half ago. I still have the stitches in and I will have my siter-in-law or her hu…

<div class="text-justify"> Last night when I was writing about [*revenge*](https://peakd.com/hive-126152/@tarazkp/random-acts-of-revenge) I was saying how we justify it when we a…

<div class="text-justify"> I was just reading an Australian news page and there was story of a mass shooting at a restaurant in North Carolina, another mass shooting at a church …

<div class="text-justify"> Smallsteps and I went for Daddy-Daughter coffee today, but before we went to the café in the city, we dropped into a store to pick her up some new pants…

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<div class="text-justify"> As a kid, there used to be commercials on TV in Australia for "dollar a day" charity sponsorship of starving children in Ethiopia, though I am not sure…

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<div class="text-justify"> I got an interesting call from an ex-colleague in the US yesterday evening, asking for advice on how to interpret and handle their supervisor, my ex-sup…

<div class="text-justify"> > Is this the last hurrah for the bear before the bull? --- ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/tarazkp/23w362Ur5dmGpVPKUEwz451BbYq5…

<div class="text-justify"> I had an interesting conversation with a client this morning about the aging population, since Finland just crossed the "million over 70" for the first …

<div class="text-justify"> ># Good artists copy; great artists steal > *Pablo Picasso* I don't know about this quote, as I don't think it is understood the way it was intended b…

<div class="text-justify"> > On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being *the most boring,* how boring do you think you are *in other people's eyes?* And I am not talking about online you, I…

<div class="text-justify"> After a hiatus of over two years, I had a client session with a guy and we essentially picked up where we had left off. It is interesting after such a …

<div class="text-justify"> > Have you ever been in love? --- ![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/tarazkp/23vhTvizaT8NhKBjyocmiCN4ix6LPzQw6uRwyfjVKPVkheEjnN…

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<div class="text-justify"> My mind is running a bit slower than usual, which means it is moving along at no more than the pace of an old, sick, differently-abled snail. I think it…

<div class="text-justify"> > Am I the man I choose to be Or just the man I used to be Am I the man I want to be This question it keeps haunting me ***Two Hands of a Prayer,** Ben …