After invading southern Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, sometime between 346-336 B.C., Philip II of Macedon turned his attention to Sparta and asked menacingly whether he should come as friend or foe. The reply was “Neither.” Losing patience, he sent the message: “You are advised to submit without further delay, for
A friend responded to my previous post, “Change At Warp Speed” by asking me what changes I thought were most critical. My first inclination was to respond with a question, something like, that depends, “What concerns you the most?” I figured that was avoidance on my part and since that person was asking me for
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” Elie Wiesel Opposites may not be what we first think. In other words what appears as obvious may
THE POWER OF NOW Here is a group of students who understand the Power of Now and have taken it upon themselves to make a difference. These are the kids from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland Florida, the survivors of the horrific attack who saw 14 of their classmates and 3 staff members shot
Numerous conversations have been swirling around recently about “authentic” with what’s real and what’s fake. Authentic means genuine, real, honest, transparent, reliable, trustworthy and what people often refer to as “up front.” In most circles that is to be preferred over “down low”, evasive, secretive, coy, shifty and misleading. Some of these recent conversations have
I’ve always liked the word miasma and can’t tell you why except that it may be somewhat onomatopoeic. That’s another word I like and I had to look up the correct spelling because I was sure there was a “t’ in there. Regardless of the trivia here’s my brief take on the current political miasma.
