Friday, December 23rd, 2011
I can’t think of a better New Year’s Resolution than to try to live up to the gentle truths of my father’s philosophy, so I’d like to offer them to you in this little poem I wrote about him, both as a loving remembrance, and as a tribute to the kind of old fashioned values [ Read More ]
: Family, Father, life philosophy, Parents, philosophy of life
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
A friend chided me gently at lunch the other day for being naïve at my advanced age, and tending to believe the best of people. At first, I was hurt, then I tried to decide if she might be trying in her kindly way, to help me. A friend’s eye is a good mirror, they [ Read More ]
: Mandela, Mandela quote, naive, naivete, Nelson Mandela, philosophy
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Life breaks everyone’s heart somehow, somewhere in time. Betrayal or death or illness or failure or war or most any tragedy can do the deed. The question is what happens then? In that dark night of the spirit, how do we live till morning? How do we resilient, courageous, fragile, faltering humans take our licks [ Read More ]
: asking for help, Grief, healing, heartbreak
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