Musing Maestro Gifts

Questioning

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Textin’"

Twitter censorship

"You're writing a memoir? You're seven years old. Do you honestly think you can capture the interest of readers with such a short—wait, is that my name?!"

'The ten commandments have all been reduced to tweets.'

Guru.

"The incessant chatter was driving me crackers, so I got him his own twitter account."

'What do you mean, the chart resembles an iceberg?'

Children playing in the street

A dancing man wearing a red-striped top

Performance Management: "We decided to get rid of the stick and just use the carrots."

The Internet - Now available in bookstores

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

Well you know what they say - here today gone tomorrow - or in the case of dotcoms, here today gone shortly after lunch.

'Honey. . . I'm ommmmmmmmmmmmmmm.'

"This isn't a bad time to be out of touch with reality."

I stamped out smiley faces in your handwritten memos, and by George, I'll do the same with emoticons in your emails!

This isn't a good time to see him --- He just got outbid for a soul on eBay. Beelzebub.

"I'm worried that I'm the only one who constantly gets anxiety attacks..."

'I'm still working on my novel. In the meantime, and this is between you and me, I make ends meet by writing all those cat memes you see on Facebook.'

Ventriloquism For Beginners.

'Was that a spiritual insight, or just clumsiness?'

"Can you give me some sort of metaphor for how you're feeling?"

'Maybe you just weren't cut out for enlightenment.'

The original sundial.

'I'm a billionaire, but I think like a millionaire.'

Surgical intervention on Emoticons

"I think it's time we acknowledged the elephant in the room."

Meditation: Do Not Disturb.

We need bold action to raise morale, yet not make people think there's a problem.

A Dummy Corporation.

"I pick up most of my wisdom from celebrity interviews.'

Adam with a selfie stick

"Here goes nothing."