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Ron Winnegrad has been a Perfumer and teacher for 46 years. As a perfumer, Ron has been able to express the world he sees through a rainbow of olfactive and emotive visions. As a teacher, Ron has helped others to see fragrance through his own multi sensorial lens.

LIFE’S GREATEST GIFT…Winnegrad

                                     To HARMONIZE; is to blend, to adapt to others, fit in with, to agree with, put on an even keel with. With HARMONY there is a balance, a unity. A choir is a group in HARMONY with each other sounding much better than a solo singer. Watching a sport […]

A BRIDGE…Amma, Winnegrad

                                         A BRIDGE of LOVE and COMPASSION is needed in today’s life. With today’s thinking that the internet will solve all confusion and problems, we are lost. We have to air-condition our minds and free it from the internet. We have to rediscover our “inner-net” and accept spirituality of the […]

FIGHTING…Winnegrad

                                                        “THE BEST FIGHTER IS NEVER ANGRY,” said Lao Tzu. FIGHTING never solves any problem. One that is good at FIGHTING knows that talking, reasoning, listening to the other person is a better and more permanent way to solve a disagreement. When I was a child, I knew a child […]

IT IS OBVIOUS…Winnegrad

                                        Wow, I just read this statement from Ernest Hemingway; “It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty years to learn to keep quiet.” How true is that? So true. Many of us speak all the time, it is a time to demonstrate one’s ego. As soon as […]

BEAR IT ALL…Winnegrad

                                                        BEAR is an animal, which we all know. There are other qualities or characteristics to the word BEAR. A BEAR can be an irritable person, a grouch. To be A BEAR for punishment is to be RUGGED or to be determined. To BEAR also is to carry or to […]

OPEN THE MIND…Lao Tzu, Winnegrad

                                             By keeping THE MIND ALWAYS OPEN and being impartial, one will not have fixed opinions or belief systems that would distort the flow of pure information coming from the outside world. The understanding of the outside world will grow and one’s position in it will be enhanced. One should […]

BEING REBORN EVERYDAY…Winnegrad

                                         Taking this perspective on life could be a benefit to one’s continuation. Waking up every morning is like a REBIRTH, for that day. It is a RENEWAL, REVIVAL, A RECOVERY from the day before. If handled properly, a REBIRTH.  If a mistake is made, the next day you are […]

THE FEELING OF AN OLD BANANA…Winnegrad

                                      There are those that search for and collect paintings of the past or search for items of the past. Yes there are true values to be found in these items. Yes there is a true value of antiques. The older they get the more the value climbs. An antique […]

THE POWER IN BEING VULNERABLE…Winnegrad

                                    VULNERABLE is considered to be UNPROTECTED, EXPOSED and DEFENSELESS. But not allowing yourself to be in that situation of VULNERABILITY, you will avoid taking risks. If you do not take a risk you avoid failure. When you avoid failure you also lose the opportunity to learn something. THE POWER […]

ALL ASSOCIATIONS ARE SPECIAL…Winnegrad

                                     Many years ago, when my son was 6 or 7 years old we went every Saturday to a restaurant on the upper east side for lunch. Then in the evening I would go back myself or with friends for dinner. After doing that consistently for about a year the […]