Monthly Archives: October 2001

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. – Marion Wright Edelman This isn’t our culture’s view. “Helping others” is either something you do … Continue reading →

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan W. Watts The state workers strike has put a big dent in my income for November. I … Continue reading →

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson In organizations, probably so. But I wonder how this applies to independent entrepreneurs like me? I hit a milestone by creating … Continue reading →

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, … Continue reading →

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. – William Carlos Williams Newsblog: The Eerily Intimate Power of Poetry to Console (registration required). I wrote a … Continue reading →

Now you will not swell the rout; of lads that wore their honours out; Runners whom renown outran; And the name died before the man. – A.E. Housman John Feinstein has an interesting piece in Tuesday’s WSJ on Michael Jordan’s … Continue reading →

Each moment is either a blessing to enjoy (and that’s a lesson) or a lesson to be learned (and that’s a blessing). – Polly Berrien Berends Berends refers to this as a “blesson” in her book, Coming to Life, one … Continue reading →

Newsblog: We are more than the sum of our stuff (registration required). I’m not sure Maureen Dowd gets it right when she writes: “America has developed an aversion to consumer overindulgence at the very moment our leaders tell us the … Continue reading →

Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens I disagree. Past misfortunes have as much to teach us as blessings.

Newsblog: The author of My Date with Suzi on Salon (subscription required) describes how a Japanese porn star responded to his email invitation to visit him in Colorado. It’s a troubling piece because he makes the whole escapade sound so … Continue reading →

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. – Babe Ruth I think this tends to hang me up in sports… fear of going for a kill shot sometimes in racquetball, fear of going for a ‘clean’ … Continue reading →