Welcome to Life on the Cliff (LOTC) Blog!  I'm Cliff, a guy who has beaten the odds, but no doubt, the odds have sometimes beaten me...that's life, right? But joyful creative optimism, while often the "odd man out" for many, has always been my renewable resource. I'm not saying my heart attack and insulin dependant diabetes or a tough divorse or working in a highly competitive industry like marketing is "just so easy and filled with flowers and butterflies" (we'll maybe butterflies), i'm just saying whatever pixie dust my mother sprinkled on me before her passing when i was still a kid, has never left me. My father, older brother Eric somehow all of us banded together-like a band of brother/father- i think my mom sprinked alot of the pixie dust on my father, i'm pretty damn sure-how else could he have been what he was and is to us...it's the only logical explanation. 

So, here's the poop, everyday on LOTC there will be ONE fresh insight based observation on a variety of life's different stories-at least how i interpert or see them...these are my so called "Rhymes of Passion". I have been writing/scribbling/"diarying" them for years and with prolonged encouragement are finally sharing them.  And with this sharing lead to doing this blog to go beyond what i have written and still write all the time as life's observational headlines-doesn't always look good jotting on a white/fushia table cloth- but anyway this blog that started because of my ROP's will  hopefully lead to discussion/dialogue about other meaningful, creative insights on life, mystery and the pursuit of empathy...personally and perfessionally in this crazy time we live in. That said, "I rather have someone rain on my parade, than opting out of the parade in the rain" (aka the bailout sucks, the economy will really suck for a while, but here we are, so lets each of us figure it out in our own way!) Talk soon