Over the years I have heard statements by various people expressing what they thought they had learned either from an experience in their life or from life itself. I, too, have learned a few things over my eighty five years on earth. The expectation is that as a person ages their experiences in life should…
Tag: Time
On Reaching Beyond the Norm
Years ago, Joseph Worthen, then a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told the following story. A young man sought a wiseman to find out what he would have to do to be successful. The sage held his head under water until he was close to being drowned. Then he told…
On Rearing Children
Rearing or raising children is not an easy task for any couple let alone a single parent. My wife and I raised six healthy and caring children, not to say there were no problems. I rather doubt that any couple raising six children could say they did so without any problems or serious concerns. If…
On Women’s Rights?
The story went like this, “Abortion on Demand w/o Apology. My wife and I were driving by as they stood outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Pittsburgh. “Look,” I said to my wife, “those are the so-called ‘escorts.’ They lead young women into the abortion clinic. Look at their smiles as they do their job.”…
On Giving, Taking and Sharing
Someone has said that eventually, “Everyone succumbs to finitude; we all reach that state where most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. Their future changes, instead of a ladder leaning toward the goals of life, it flattens out into a perpetual present or now. We are no longer…
On Writing Our Personal Histories
I have written about Writing Your Personal History but my thoughts here are taking a motivational approach. It is not because the things stated before, in other writings, are less important but because there are different ways that we are stimulated and/or motivated. We all seem to look at things a little differently. I rather…
On Is There a Purpose for Boredom?
Gayatri Devi remarked that; “Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It’s the last privilege of a free mind. …So lean in to boredom, into that intense experience of time untouched by beauty, pleasure, comfort and all other temporal salubrious sensations. Observe it, how your mind responds to boredom, what you feel and think…
On Preparation
As a youth in the 1930’s and 1940’s, preparation never crossed my mind once. Even though it hadn’t crossed my mind either as a word or as a process, I was able to watch it happening on a day to day bases, without realizing it. We had a large family with eight children. I watched…
On The Best And The Worst
Charles Dickens, in writing his book, A Tale of Two Cities, began his story by saying, “It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.” That statement could apply to every era, every generation, and to every household in every country that has ever shared this beautiful earth. Too! It represents every period of…
On Hesitation
There are many reasons why we should hesitate to do things, especially without having carefully thought them through first. The saying; ‘He who hesitates is lost” Is oftimes fool’s advice. Many decisions we make in life should be made a matter of prayer and or careful thought. When we are pressured to move forward with…