On the Road Again…Just got back from Manhattan

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Just got home from teaching a great group of 200 students
in Manhattan at the Federal Building!
Coming in for a landing into LaGuardia
Driving by the Brooklyn Bridge
Got a view of the Empire State Building
Took a walk to Battery Park and saw the Statue of Liberty
 Visited the 9-11 Memorial and saw the Freedom Tower 
Walked down Wall Street and saw the New York Stock Exchange, Tiffanys and Trump’s Place

Saw Trinity Church
Taught Class (picture intentionally distorted)

Flew home — Manhattan below

Kyron Horman’s Parents on Dr. Phil Today

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Desiree and Kaine, the biological parents of Kyron Horman, whose been missing since June 4, 2010, went on the Dr. Phil show to talk about what they know about Kyron’s disappearance.

In the interview, they both discussed how they believe Terri Horman, Kaine’s second wife (now ex), knows what happened to Kyron.  They both said that they believe the information begins and ends with her–yet she has never been looked at as a suspect or a person of interest in the case.

I have never trusted Terri Horman from the first day I saw her at the press conference at the end of June 2010.  Her behavior flagged me immediately (as did Kaine though I later saw it was Terri’s influence that gave me the hotspots on Kaine).

In the interview on Dr. Phil,  I believe Kaine when he said that he never got the messages that Desiree was sending to him the year after Kyron went missing–that Terri was in communication with Desiree, and she kept that communication away from him.  I absolutely believe that.  It’s completely consistent with Terri’s personality profile.  She is someone who tried to pay for a hit on Kaine.  She is the type to want to control and manipulate people.  It fits.

I didn’t believe Kaine when he said that he and Terri did not argue the night before Kyron disappeared.   I suspect he doesn’t want to admit to it because doing so might open up dialogue he doesn’t want to discuss.  Kaine is one who has a hard time owning up to certain behaviors (e.g. cheating on Desiree), hence I think if he did admit to the argument that night, he’d have a hard time talking about what precipitated the argument or what was said.  Perhaps there were real threats that he should have taken seriously and didn’t.  Of course, this is speculative, but I think Kaine is hiding something here that may or may not be important.

I do believe, however, in Kaine’s defense that Terri does say one thing to one person and then something else to another.  Both Desiree and Kaine substantiated that.

I originally wrote about Terri Horman in June of 2010 and said I was very suspicious of her by her behavior. It doesn’t square up.  I didn’t trust her and still don’t trust her.  Does that mean she murdered Kyron?  No.  Does she likely know more?  My answer is yes.

Today I learned a lot about what Desiree and Kaine feel about Terri and its in alignment with what I’ve felt all along, but now I have more details to understand why.

You can read my thoughts here on Terri Horman back in June 2010.

Expression of the Day

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BITTER

What can you conclusively conclude from this photo?

Man Wakes Up From Surgery: Doesn’t Recognize Wife

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This is quite the fascinating video to watch in the study of human behavior. Here we have a husband waking up from hernia surgery (his 5th one!) and he doesn’t seem to recognize his wife.

When I first watched it, I didn’t buy it.  I see him hold back a smile and not very good–shortly into the video. I then watched the couple talk about this video on a morning talk show and they seemed genuine.

It took me some time to process everything I saw, but I think I can finally articulate what happened.

I suspect when Jason woke up from surgery, he was totally out of it. That’s normal.  If you’ve had surgery, you know the fog you wake up into. According to his doctor it is possible not to recognize people, but that is very, very rare.

What does happen in surgery, at least for me, and he seems to experience it, too, is a whole new perspective, albeit very short-lived.  I don’t know whether it is from the drugs or being knocked out, but what happens is your “perception of what’s before you” is cleaned, and you see things from an unattached (unemotional) perspective, if that makes sense.

I attributed it to the fact I was in pain, and my emotions about things around me were muted to cope with the pain (my body was in survival mode), and hence when I looked around, I didn’t see things through my normal emotional (biased) lens.  I simply saw them for what they were.  Hence, Jason doesn’t see his wife “as his wife” — he simply sees her as “a beautiful woman”–what she is at her basic core.

Does that make sense?

This is very short-lived, if you’ve experienced it. It goes away a day after surgery.

Jason may have looked at her in a groggy state and not recognized her for an instant, but decided to have fun with it once he put two and two together which was pretty quickly. Then I suspect he had fun with it and flattered his wife, because he was seeing her beauty through a  totally different lens.

Jason, if you want my opinion, is a natural born comedian type who loves to play jokes on people, and he clearly enjoys making his wife feel good. I think he was aware of who she was, but he played up on it and had fun with it. It’s completely consistent with his personality.

And when he tells us now that he doesn’t remember it–it totally fits with after surgery experiences. He may not remember it, but he likely was aware of who she was and had fun making her feel like super important in the moment.  And his wife captured that moment.  What’s the harm in that?

Diana Nyad Talks

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There is controversy swirling around Diana Nyad–did she do the swim from Cuba to Key West unaided? That’s the question.

In watching this video, I can honestly say that I am neutral after watching it. I don’t see anything that makes me believe her in this video and I don’t see anything that outright makes me think she is lying.

I do see oddities, but they are just that–oddities.  For example, she says, “I swam–we made it–our team from the rocks of Cuba to the beach in Florida at squeaky-clean ethical fashion.”

Her wording is usual — hence it is odd, and simply that.

I don’t hear her deny any cheating.  She may believe what she did was ethical, but that wouldn’t necessarily make it so.  Do you follow me?

Nyad talks about making her data available.  Why have they waited so long to do this?  This concerns me, but it is only a concern.

Toward the end of the video, she gives me confidence to believe her, but with the oddities above, I remain neutral.

Sometimes I need more to make a final opinion and this is one of them.

I was initially troubled by the fact she supposedly went 7.5 hours with no water or food when her body was in a high-risk dehydration situation and a calorie deficit.   I cannot fathom how one could do that, but I am not a scientist to know the limits of the body.  I also found her to be very ego-centric, which is always a concern for me.