by Guillermo Vidal | Oct 9, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self
It is common to believe we were all wired to be something special, but does this mean it just one thing for every lifetime? Is this special something connected to a career or accumulating worth? These two questions are worth pondering, especially since as parents,...
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 12, 2019 | Aging Well
My parents were batshit crazy. It wasn’t so much that they had faults, every human has them, it was that their marital union blended their failings into a cocktail of emotional and psychological poison. I am grateful for them and how they helped shape the person I...
by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 7, 2019 | Becoming Your Best Self
Game of Thrones and human history have one thing in common; life is just one damned thing after another. But there is something else that may not seem so obvious; they contain lots of instances of family members betraying one another. The fact is that “blood is not...
by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 25, 2019 | Aging Well
The worst day of my life happened on September 29, 1961. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. This was the day my parents put my brothers and I on an airplane from Havana, Cuba to Miami, Florida as part of a program called Operation Peter Pan. The...
by Guillermo Vidal | Oct 1, 2018 | Spiritual Development
From the day we entered this earth, we have all been taking part in our life’s cycle of death and rebirth. Several weeks ago, Dr. Christine Bradstreet, a blogging friend, showed this universal phenomenon when she wrote about how she rose from the ashes of a difficult...