ABSILVER's World

Chores accomplished including picking up the dry cleaning so I can pack tomorrow for a journey west for work.  Condo is clean, time to get it ready for my sister's visit next week. I am worried about Provincetown, friends and family.  As Lee says this house has lasted 200 years it will stand, but been more than 12 hours no electricity or heat and I worry more about people than things and buildings these days any way.  I worry and feel lucky, to be in Fort Lauderdale and enjoying what is another wonderful winter day here. I also, sit here at what I believe is an inflection point, a turning point in my life.  I do this on occasion, reflect back on what I see as pivotal turns in my life that changed me or my life direction.   There are obvious ones like pledging AEPi, co-oping with IBM, coming out to the world, living in New York, and a variety of moves in my career and home.  There are also those that change me, cause I am just ready to change. Today isn't one of those days.

I sit here at an intersection of my mind. Mental Lifestyle Ambition Friends and Family Mentally: I like to live and work in a world of challenges.  I like to be forced to think, create and act.  It is both a curse and a gift.  I once had a boyfriend ask me if I could think about nothing for an hour.  So, I did.  I thought about what was nothing. Why I couldn't think about nothing? Analyzed why nothing was bothering me and then realized I had wast an hour thinking about nothing.   I find it hard to meditate and just don't know how to stop my mind.  Amazingly and gratefully I don't have a challenge sleeping nor do I remember many dreams. I happened this week to be in the presence of two people who can cause my mind to get turbo charged and frankly was fun.  One was a previous boss,spending an hour together made me remember how special she is and our connection.  If I have achieved anything in my career it is being a catalyst for change, and s

There is a bogus, thankfully I researched, email floating around that is supposed to be from Bill Cosby but it is not.     http://billcosby.com/2011/09/if-you-got-the-bogus-email-its-time-to-hit-delete/    Supposed to be about his feelings at 83 but he is only 75 going on 76. I started writing cause frankly it pissed me off.  So, I changed the below to not be critical of Bill Cosby but I am... I am tired of people assuming they know what other people have endured, because they see them walking down the street with tattoos or studs in their ears. Tired, of people judging people who have found hardship in their lives and accept no responsibility to help them.  Maybe, they lost their job because their skills were no longer needed, or because they came down with a chronic illness through no fault of their own, or possibly the one you think looks strange is really a CEO of a new media company.  Maybe they lost their job cause some artist, media person, or 1% decided to do their next p

What I learned in 2012... and desires for 2013. 1) Good work and working with good friends is a great way to earn a living. 2) I am truly blessed and lucky to have an accepting and loving family.  I also learned that there is something special about the Silverman family.  We all have special families, just nice to see in my own. 3) Savannah really is a wonderful city, and all bias aside, I believe is prettier than Charleston, SC.  Primarily it is because Savannah was planned from the beginning and is a true river city. 4) The United States of America has shown again that it can evolve.  That we can have relatively fair elections even if we disagree, when the time comes make progress both politically, economically, and socially. 5) I believe that most politicians start in politics to do something good.  They may get tarnished along the way, but they still remember their reasons.  That is when things come to the wire they can make the right decisions and surprise us all.

.I know with what happened in Newton, that what is below is really trivial in comparison.  I also know that I should write something, but I don't know what to write about a senseless tragedy.   Would gun control have prevented this?  if all teachers had guns would they have shot him before he shot anyone?  What can you do to protect children without them feeling so protected that they don't grow up with the sense to take care and secure themselves?  but, I don't know these answers... so I am writing about something pretty trivial, unless you are an artist or a miffed iphone owner. OK.. I am not really mad at Ford. OK.. Only slightly mad at MicroSoft and..  Apple I have a bone to pick with you. So.. how do these all come together?  I got a new iPhone 5, at the same time I got a new Ford Fusion with their Sync technology developed by Microsoft. So... it all starts.. with I had backed up my iphone4 and all the music to the iCloud. (Apple's version of the Matrix ap

I have a confession to make.  I hope it doesn't come off as being a Grinchy moment.  But, I don't understand Christmas.  Please, Fox News, I am not part of the official attack on Christmas. Please, understand, I know that it is the Celebration of Jesus Christ's birthday.  I know something about a manger scene, because I have seen them all over since I was born.  Even saw a live rendition at the Radio City Christmas show, and even though many think it is wrong I think it is a Christmas celebration so it should be there. I get the present giving part, and the family and the joy of being together.  I understand the warmth and caring.  The beautiful holiday windows, and even to some degree the pageantry of Santa Clause. Not sure I understand the symbolism of the Christmas Tree, stockings, or the basic traditions around Christmas.   Cause, I haven't celebrated as many of you have your whole life. Unlike many of my Jewish friends, my parents didn't create an envi

I am on another flight, and yes it is time to write for my blog. Last Sunday, was my 48th birthday.  As much as I tried to hide the fact that it was my birthday, from Facebook to just not mentioning to anyone it happened anyway.  This birthday may have come to pass as one of the most interesting and best of my life so far.  You must understand my birthdays growing up were heavily influenced by being born the day before Thanksgiving.  It is frankly more about my birthday consistently being around a holiday which everyone celebrates.  I don't remember feeling somehow left out of the birthday fun.  I wasn't a popular young kid.  So, the idea of birthday parties and big events in school would have been more out of the norm for me and made me feel quite uncomfortable.  I remember the one birthday party Mom hosted for me at the house.  I don't have much memory of it other than there was a huge ordeal to make sure we really did keep kosher and the food served would be ko