Sometimes, when somebody tells me they think I’m making a remarkable recovery from my stroke, I answer in this way: Well, it didn’t kill me, so it must have made me stronger. I think most people have probably heard a version of that quote: what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. I always thought I (more…)
A long time ago, Neil Young put out an album called Rust Never Sleeps and went on tour. I was in the audience when the tour hit my area. I’ve never known just what he meant by rust never sleeps, but I always saw it as a warning to keep moving ahead, that to stop (more…)
You hear about it happening to people all the time, including people you know. And you’re left to wonder whether it will ever happen to you as well. And then one day, out of the blue it happens: a summons to report for jury duty. It happened to me recently. I’d actually been hoping it would (more…)
I love haiku and though the form doesn’t have the same nuance or depth in English as it does in Japanese, I still strive to write the “perfect” haiku. It’s not that I expect to ever be a great poet. It’s that the energy I put into creating a haiku is so different from the (more…)
Have you ever seen a circus elephant standing serenely, tied to a little peg in the ground? How does that work? I mean, elephants can grow to be over a ton. Why does an elephant just stand there? Why doesn’t this creature, one of the most powerful animals in the world, just rip the peg out (more…)
Yesterday was Giving Tuesday. You probably know that from all of the emails that came into your inbox yesterday reminding you it was Giving Tuesday. Admittedly, we sent a couple of reminders, too. There are many causes, many reasons, and many stories. Stories like Holly’s, from our BEST group in Second Life who said, “Because (more…)
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