Welcome to Life As A Second Language

If you somehow stumble onto this nascent blog, know that it just started-- July 4, 2019.  I will add pertinent introductory info as soon as I figure out what's pertinent.  Basically, tho, the theme will be how to alter, and hopefully improve, both one's experience of life and one's behavior based on that new experience.    Since I don't have anything didactic prepared I will for the most part respond to what others may eventually write or ask here.   It should be a two-way-street process even if there are some things that I may have learned in my several decades of study that are new to readers/contributors.

I will add one thing, which is:  I'm a firm believer in the potential for confrontation as a door to personal and group progress.  Not war, necessarily, but a certain degree of disagreement even if intense.   Basically, what I got in a fortune cookie a couple of years ago:

"We get comfort from those who agree with us and growth from those who don't."  

I do think it's not necessary to be mean when there are other options, but generally I think that in the pursuit of change tact is significantly overrated.  Say what you want to say, how you want to say it.


So, welcome.


steve