Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
The bad news is, time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler “I realized that as simple as this notion sounds, there’s actually a real challenge involved. Why? Because you have to risk failure and embarrassment to show who you are within the thing you’re making” ✒ Howard Sherman
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” – Nelson Mandela That Nelson…
The sci-fi writer William Gibson’s proverb, “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed,” is the obverse of Faulkner’s “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – Justin Taylor Going boating with the neighbors tomorrow, so I was thinking about an American’s median life expectancy. Turns out it is 76.4 years. …
My recent Boston Marathon adventure got me thinking of another trip, hitherto unreported. But, oh, look, The Statue Of Inhibitions has expired. It was the Fall of 2014. A more innocent time. I was much younger. And I kept notes. Back home two days, throat scratchy after many hours of public transport.Still processing the idea…
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha That photo adorns a marketing email I received from the old grey lady, i.e., The New York Times. A purple sneaker stomping a international symbol of diversity. What the hell? Not even a walking…
Miracles honor you because you are lovable. They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity. – Jessica Dimas You can be anything, Mom said. I believe…
Is “Too many chiefs, not enough Indians” really racist now? I have trouble keeping up with shit. Used to be, the working man – women stayed home – wanted his kids to go to college, so they would have ‘a better life.’ As more Americans – women, too – went to college, got too expensive…
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Bullshit is systemic at a microbiological level across all spectra and I blame sparing the rod and spoiling the child. But it could be cable television…
There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking. – Edward J. Flanagan Remember sitting on the porch of my Grandma’s house On a Sunday Afternoon after all morning in church, listen to old ladies sing like they meant to hurt your ears. A strict churchgoer – prayer…
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. – Chinese Proverb You go to bed and in the morning get up and see everything changed around. It’s been rearranged, in the night. All of it. That’s the deal for every living one of us. I’m certain it’s…