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Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman “Time is on my side.” —The Rolling Stones TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—5/2/11—I just read an article in The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger) about a young scientist by the name of David Eagleman. Dr. Eagleman is interested in how time works and how our brains perceive time. Although, as a scientist, [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—4/11/11—A third birthday. Not for a three-year-old.  And not a real birthday celebration.  Rather, a remembrance, a marker in time, a strange moment of sadness and loss and yet also of love and sweet thoughts. Today is the birthday of my late wife, Rhona, and it is [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—3/28/11—Good Lord, what a horrible event! An earthquake and then a true nightmare-come-to-life tsunami. I sit stunned as I watch it steadily rolling and roiling across a quiet Japanese landscape, simply destroying everything in its path. Unbelievable. But there it is, right on my TV, all [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/14/11—I recently read an article in The New York Times about a doctor who discovered he had cancer. From the first moments of his new journey into the medical system as a patient rather than as a practitioner, he was amazed to feel that he was suddenly [...]

New York, New York (Again, Again) Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—2/28/11—Here we go again. I love New York. I’ve written before about how wonderful it is to be in New York and I’ve actually restrained myself from a repeat performance since but, what the hey, it’s been a while and it’s [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—2/14/11—For the first eight years of training with my Japanese Aikido teacher, Yamada Sensei, he never said a word to me. When I started training in the wonderful martial art of Aikido some 27 years ago, I had an art studio in New York City not far [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris) —1/31/11 Adages, old saws, aphorisms, words of wisdom, haiku, proverbs, axioms: startlingly concise groups of words that may sneak up on you and conk you on the head, leaving you with the concussion of a brand new viewpoint on your life. If you’re lucky. We are [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman “One’s body is a miniature universe” —Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—1/17/10—While driving down a street very near my home, I passed a small construction site. As I passed the site, I suddenly, inexplicably, and clearly saw everything at once in a startling and crystal-clear way. I [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—12/20/10—“Ask and you shall receive” evolved into “The Power of Positive Thinking” and, even more recently, morphed into “The Secret.” These are all manifestations of a very powerful idea, the idea that you simply need to direct your energy toward that which you wish for in life [...]

Squibs & Blurbs by Jerry Zimmerman Editor’s Note: About a year ago, I asked Sensei Jerry Zimmerman if he would consider writing a column for my fledgling online –zine, WeeklyHubris and, so, so kindly, he acceded. Jerry is a Sensei, first and foremost, and a visual artist as well but, until the advent of “Squibs [...]