Hope is the risk that must be run. ~ George Bernanos To run the risk – exposing self to possibly unpleasantness. Hope is the risk; the risk is hope. Risk, a word sprung from danger. So is danger ancestor to hope? […]
Continue reading »Twenty Seconds of Insane Courage
Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally, twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery and I promise you, something great will come of it. ~ We Bought a Zoo Insane courage. Embarrassing bravery. Twenty seconds. An old lawyer, […]
Continue reading »To Save Himself
How he does cherish the thought that man, risen so majestically from a single cell in the primordial ooze, is the spearhead of evolution and therefore the only god that his universe knows! Must he renounce all this to save […]
Continue reading »Hogmanay
I drink to the hope that the friends of youth may be companions in old age. ~ Robert Burns Sixty-five years after Bob’s steady girl moved away, he used the Internet to locate Claire. Today I led them through their […]
Continue reading »The Gift
Our culture gifts solitude not for meditation, yet our purpose, we choose. Emotions, resentment, chaos flare, ensnare. Retreat! Find sanctuary to regroup, to connect, to redirect. Nobody need know if you flush as you leave.
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