I did not direct my life. I did not plan it. I never made decisions.Things always came up and made them for me.That’s what life is. B.F Skinner I am the ordinary son of an ordinary man. Which is pretty self-evident, I know. But, as I started to unearth that[…]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast…Alexander Pope You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.I hope some day you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.John Lennon Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.Desmond Tutu[…]
(Leadership Comes from All Directions) You who choose to lead must follow ~ Ripple, Robert Hunter …and whosoever would be first among you must be slave of all… ~ Mark, Chapter 10, vv. 43 & 44 Therefore, desiring to rule over the people,One must in one’s words humble oneself before[…]
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” “Not everybody can be famous,[…]
Sharing his name with the blessing of family Caleb, a partner-in-learning of ours for many years, passed away unexpectedly yesterday. There’s a big hole in our hearts today. Many of the humans who teach us important things come to that role without assignment or title. Caleb was one of those[…]
Everything is always up for grabs…Ram Dass Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.Mohandas K. Gandhi There is a tendency for living things to join up, establish linkages, live inside each other, return to earlier arrangements, get alongwherever[…]
You don’t miss your water, ‘til the well runs dry -William Bell- You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone -Joni Mitchell- Round about age fifty, everybody in my family with patrilineal (Powsner) DNA enters the world of progressive higher frequency hearing loss. At first, the progression is so[…]
Today is Independence Day. Porches are draped with bunting and flags are flying. 240 years and 2 days ago the Second Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain largely as a protest to taxation without representation. The group behavior of declaration was the culmination of a succession of setting events[…]
Tuesday was National Teacher Appreciation Day and we’re coming to the close of National Teacher Appreciation Week. I want to grab the opportunity to say something about this before it’s over. This is not to say that we cannot appreciate teachers any day or week of the year. We can[…]
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -Saint Bernard of Clairvaux- The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men gang aft agley. -Robert Burns- It has been about two weeks since the sun arrived at its southernmost reach over the Tropic of Capricorn and headed back our way.[…]