“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman Living in the country, we have a long-standing battle with ants. Crawling all over the cat food bowl. Marching in a line from the kitchen window […]
The Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dance mania in Strasbourg. Hundreds of people danced without stopping for weeks on end, with several of them dancing themselves to death. Some historians suspect mass hysteria. Others blame hallucinations from food poisoning. Some scholars say the event was staged by a large religious […]
Last week, a lone anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 people and injured 6 more in a Pittsburg synagogue. Days later, another shooting occurred in a Tallahassee yoga class. At the time of this writing, there have already been 297 mass shootings in 2018, or almost as many shootings as days in the year so far. Every […]
Last week, I completely lost my hearing. Oddly shaped Eustachian tubes and seasonal allergies created a perfect storm of hearing loss for two full days. It was like listening to the whole world from the bottom of the deep end of the pool. I spent an inordinate amount of time first opening my mouth wide […]
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ~ Stephen Covey Homer tells of the great Odysseus, whose homeward journey after winning the Trojan War ended up taking several detours. On one of his side trips, the […]
Robert Ross didn’t know what he wanted to do when he grew up. A high-school dropout from Florida, he was working as a carpenter until he lost part of his index finger to a saw. Since the injury inhibited his carpentry skills, Robert enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, rising quickly through the ranks to […]
