When was the last time you listened to a speech and thought to yourself, “Wow, that was a great speech!” Such speeches are rare nowadays, especially ones destined for historical…
Category: <span>Misc.</span>
Schadenfreude is one of my favorite words. It’s a noun that means, pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune. Does this make me a bad person? Perhaps. But the video is…
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” —Mary Oliver “Human life begins on the far side of despair.” —Jean-Paul Sartre A poem or haiku gets to the essence of life…
“One’s destiny lies not in the past nor the future…” Chang-Rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea Alexander the Great had his destiny, and the world remembers it thousands…
How I saw the world without leaving home. Before I retired, I was asked on many occasions why I didn’t travel as much as other people in my social circle. …
“One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”…