"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good." - Pablo Casals …
Test the Variables
When you are troubled, you are wise to make use of the scientific method. How? It's really quite easy: Formulate a question. Make a falsifiable hypotheses. Predict an outcome. Test your hypothesis. Analyze the results. It's quite easy, though it does require a determination and objectivity that fly in the face of the tightly wound …
The Immovable Object
"And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Matthew 11:6 If love is the irresistible force, then truth is the immovable object. Truth cannot neither be owned nor cornered; human opinion pales and quivers in its almighty, imperturbable shadow. Gloria Steinem once observed that "The truth will set you free, but first …
Live in Peace
Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, …
Know Thyself
Know Thyself by Alexander Pope Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in …
Indemnifying Fleetness
The River of Life by Thomas Campbell The more we live, more brief appear Our life’s succeeding stages: A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. But as the careworn cheek …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy
The folks at WordPress.com issued a multi-photo challenge on the theme of "Happy." I hope that these "left seat photos" (taken from my airplane) of nature's constantly changing display make you as happy to be alive as they did me!
Consent to Concede
Consent to Concede by Gregg Hake We are too much of this world, then and now, Trading birthrights for a mess of pottage; Forsaking true intercourse for frottage, Dominion lost in domination's dow! The sea of glass churned by earth-tiller's plough, Crystal no more but occluded by flotage; Vision enclosed by walls of man's plottage, …
Managing Pressure
Peter Drucker once said that "The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager." While I am not totally in agreement with this statement as I feel that everyone in an organization can be held responsible for productivity, I do see it as a valuable concept in the process …
Unmitigated Adoration
Song at Sunset by Walt Whitman Splendor of ended day, floating and filling me! Hour prophetic—hour resuming the past! Inflating my throat—you, divine average! You, Earth and Life, till the last ray gleams, I sing. Open mouth of my Soul, uttering gladness, Eyes of my Soul, seeing perfection, Natural life of me, faithfully praising things; …
Gregory Hake 