Thoughts | 2017 Year Resolution and First Snowstorm in NYC

Uncannily the first snowstorm of 2017 in New York coincides with the first storm of the year in my family life. Uncanny is the adjective which best describes how my personal life events are situated within a general social context. Or perhaps such link is not really uncanny but that be explained in a very fast two-way ripple effect from the private to the public or the personal to the political realm.
    For over two years I have  thrown in the dystopian world of divorce : greed driven strangers dig their claws into the most personal life of confused individuals. There is no regulation to such display of human cruelty and greed: vultures wearing suits do not respect grief or intimate relationships. I am referring to divorce attorneys, one of the worst examples of human nature I have ever encountered.
    The past few years' year resolution have failed, due to struggling with pressure from life events independent from my control. This year I have decided of not making any new year resolution. The acceptance of what I can control and recognition of what I cannot will be driven my resilience plan for the upcoming year.

The first snowstorm of 2017, from Central Park

performances | Geelong, "1984" at GPAC

A multimedia rendering of  the "1984" novel opened on Thursday at the Geelong Performing Art Center GPAC. The dystopian novel by George Orwell is yet a dark rendering of the many facets of surveillance and lost of privacy almost all of us are facing today. Even if, hopefully in a positive bright way, the connection with remote places brought by social networks, GPS, smartphones and cameras, are not far from the invasive "big brother" of 1949 novel. Food for thought, and sensory dark and obsessive feast for the eye, was brought by the towering screens in the set design, where technology of the remote video images was in contrast with the set portraying the real squalid places of the action.

Shake and Stir theater company cast portraying Winston Smith and O'Brien