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  A very different book, All Our Waves Are Water.   Journalist-biographer-resident surfer, and guru,    Jaimal Yogis   (h e might shudder to be referred to as " guru", a modest man)  is on a quest. Jaimal takes his mind's-eye with him, his awareness, and ramps it up, as he journeys through life, a search for his best self, and more than that, he's running away from a bad break up. It is a physical journey, and an inward trip, too.  Having one parent of Jewish ancestry but raised in a Buddhist tradition, it is no surprise t hat a stream of guilt is laced into the words of this delicious biography. I look forward to reading his other book, Saltwater Buddha . All Our Waves Are Water All Our Waves Are Water All Our Waves Are Water   might be a metaphor, but is probably what every surfer is feeling while finding his way in the ocean. There is an attachment to water, detachment from all else, as it must be, because anything else, and down you go. Fall o...

I know, I know I said it. I said that both Mr. Trump and Mrs, Clinton needed therapy (last post). People are taking down their FaceBook accounts because of things they have said publicly, and this should worry me.  But that was yesterday. And the theme of this blog, remember, is that everyone needs therapy.  So it isn't an insult, okay? President-Elect Donald Trump acceptance speech Today, the day after the election, I'm thinking more of the President-Elect. No matter the personality we saw during the contest, he knows this country better, more intimately, than any of us . We underestimated him.   And this intimacy, this knowledge, is the reason he won the election without contest.  It is why he said he would give us hell if Mrs. Clinton had been elected, that he wouldn't accept the election results. He knew . He had his finger on the pulse of America all along, when nobody else did.  America, to most of us, has been the America that is outspoken, everyone shout...