Yes, I finish my week of being refreshed and inspired today. Now I return to reality and knee surgery. Here are a few words of inspiration: “Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman,…
Author: Webb Hubbell
One Thing In The World Of Importance — Goodness
There’s only one thing in the world of any real importance, and that is goodness. — Maria Mitchell. What do you think of Maria Mitchell’s words? How do you or we define goodness? Is it something we just know when we see or experience? As I get older I wonder when I was at my best.…
Class Has Endured As The Most Divisive Force In Society
Not gender, not race, not orientation, but class has endured as the most divisive force in society. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Reading the above gave me pause. There is so much discussion these days about race and orientation, and so very little about that part of human nature that considers one individual better than another because of…
Randomness Is the Reigning Monarch of the Universe
Randomness is the reigning monarch of the universe. — Maria Popova, Figuring We think we are in control, but no matter how many walls we erect around our existence, things happen that come out of nowhere. We do everything perfect at work, and the boss decides to sell the business and you’re laid off. You’ve decided to…
The Thirst For Truth and Good
Religion — The thirst for truth and good, not the love of sect and dogma. — Margaret Fuller What better journey to embark than to seek truth and good, and I can think of no better refreshment for the soul than when we experience, at anytime or any place, truth and good. Sect and dogma does…