“Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he’s deceiving?” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down “Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure… Read More ›
Month: January 2019
WHAT’S THE NUMBER?
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition” ― Timothy Leary “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” ― Yogi Berra So let’s talk about… Read More ›
LIKE CHESS IN A STAR WARS CANTINA
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.” ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles “There is… Read More ›
WE DON’T CELEBRATE MARTYRS. WE JOIN THEM
“Not only must we know the arguments on all sides of any debate, we must also seriously consider the questions that are not being asked and their implications for everyone involved. My” ― William J. Barber II, The Third Reconstruction:… Read More ›
CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM
“THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.” ― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings If you’re not careful, the newspapers… Read More ›
PERHAPS THERE IS MORE GOING ON THAN WHAT MEETS THE EYE
“It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”… Read More ›
PARALLEL LINES
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats… Read More ›
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A MISTAKE?
“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according… Read More ›
TIME TO DIVE BACK IN
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful!’ and sitting in the shade.” ― Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s… Read More ›
THE CASE FOR WORK FORCE HOUSING
“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterward that makes it right or wrong.” ― Miles Davis “Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” ― Roger Miller The… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 