Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. — Bruce Lee. One of the goals of self-examination is to get to know yourself. From childhood we are given role models, idols, celebrities, to look up to, admire, and imitate. But at some…
The Smallest Act
The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation. — Hannah Arendt. We can’t all be Elon Musk where we create a successful automobile company, fly rockets into outer space, and accumulate billions. But Hannah’s words above tell us that…
A Letter
I wrote to you in my letter… — 1 Corinthians 5:9. It is interesting to realize that lots of the books in the New Testament are merely letters. With email, twitter, and texts these days letter writing is a lost art. Historians write books and papers based on letters great men and women wrote, but I…
Weary World
So shines a good deed in a weary world. — Willie Wonka. Charlie returns a gobstopper and places it on Willy Wonka’s desk. Wonka is heartened by this act of honesty. His response is a rephrasing of a Shakespeare quote from The Merchant of Venice, which was originally, “So shines a good deed in a naughty…
Searching
From time to time, someone goes missing. They were last seen climbing a mountain, swimming in the ocean, or hiking some remote trail. Too often the search is only partially successful, a body is found, but the person has died. Often, a person lost results in a tragedy. There is a different kind of lost.…