Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 1
No matter what, when I first think of hope, or the idea of hope, an unusual image surfaces in my mind. The face of Tony Shaloub, as the acutely observant and ever so dour savant detective Adrian Monk. In one episode, when his long suffering assistant Natalie says to...
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 1
When my children were teenagers they got hold of my yearbook from senior year in high school and got a big chuckle when they saw that I had been named “class optimist.” They recognize me more as a Murphy’s Law, cup half-empty, kind of guy. If I...
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 1
Last week on Darkwood Brew we had bit of a preview of the coming series, Hope: A Pessimist’s Guide. From all the feedback we’ve been receiving, our viewers and Brewers loved the reflective conversation with Chris, Josh and Eric, the amazing music of Chuck...
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 1
Yesterday a brother named Troy Davis was executed for supposedly killing a police officer over 20 years ago. Though seven out of nine witnesses recanted their statements he was still executed (http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/cases/usa-troy-davis). Over the past...
Blog, HOPE: A PESSIMIST'S GUIDE, Week 1
Each week we begin the Darkwood Brew show with a theme song entitled The Call. I wrote this several years ago. The inspiration came from years of working with students at Arizona State University. There were many examples of unhappy kids who were in college studying...
