by McDermott + Bull | Oct 6, 2023 | Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
| “He opened the window, to savor (the outdoors), and the air tasted different from yesterday’s: milder, preparatory, stirred. Something had moved nearer.” — From the National Book Award winning novel The Centaur by John Updike DO WE HAVE LIFE OR DOES LIFE HAVE US?...
by McDermott + Bull | Aug 17, 2023 | Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
There are a lot of choices we face. There are many ways we can approach this diversity of challenges and opportunities. Does our approach itself change us? How would we measure whether it does? Is it based only on the outcomes — the scoreboard after the choices? Is...
by McDermott + Bull | Oct 5, 2022 | Article, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article, What Keeps You On Top?
Our Unmistakable Tale | For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. — From “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin We all have our own story to tell — our unmistakable tale....
by McDermott + Bull | May 3, 2022 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
| ”If you examine a life... do you really examine the life, or do you examine the shadow it casts on other lives?” — From the National Book Award winning novel The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner “The shadow we cast” is a powerful thought. It’s also a huge...
by McDermott + Bull | Oct 19, 2021 | Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article, What Keeps You On Top?
What’s Lost by Not Having an Enemy? Think about this for a minute: what’s lost by not having an enemy? For most of my life, I always found myself jealous, envious, or resentful about something or somebody — the adversary or competitor. I must think I’m a pretty...
by McDermott + Bull | Jun 8, 2021 | A Relationship Story, Jeff Black, Jeff Black Article
”It almost makes you wonder what else you don’t know about yet.” — From the National Book Award winning novel Charming Billy by Alice McDermott We spend so much energy trying to be our best, when in reality, we are not ever our best because of what is yet to be...
