Late in his life Teddy Roosevelt was told by his doctor that he might never walk again. He may have to get used to being in a wheel chair. With his trademark ebullience he responded, “All right!...Read More
Enlightenment Now By Steven Pinker This is one of my favorite books from this summers reading. Pinker sees the flow of history and writes about what has worked and what hasn’t. He ends up about ...Read More
Atavistic Adjective: A Throwback. The recurrence of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form. Example: Our belief in Gods is Atavistic....Read More
WWIT is an acronym for What Was I Thinking. It was started as a way for me to comment on current affairs so that this record won’t have gaps like there are in my Vietnam journal. In Phoenix we h...Read More
“Character is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life.” Joan Didion from The Daily Stoic by Holiday and Hanselman Photo credit: Simon taken at the Dallas Botanica...Read More
Planet Earth is like a restaurant for humanity. If you focus on keeping the restaurant clean you won’t feed many people. If you never clean it up it will become toxic in short order. If you clean as...Read More