Category Archives: Wisdom

Am I As Good As I Used To Be?  Comparison is the death of joy.  Mark Twain. History always wants to compare. This is also true of sports and personal legacy. Why?I ran across the Mark Twain quote by sports … Continue reading →

Decision Rules And Custom  Have a place for everything and put the thing someplace else.                                              That’s not advice, … Continue reading →

Open-Mindedness Is The Best Teacher          If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.  S. I. Hayakawa … Continue reading →

Admit It  Wherever you go, there you are. Jon Kabat-Zinn  There is an old joke about a man, who asks a stranger the way to Edinburgh, to which the stranger replies: “If I were going there, I wouldn’t start from … Continue reading →

Doubt Leads To Questions — Questions Lead To Wisdom  To be wise has changed from being able to answer the questions                                       … Continue reading →

That Is Not The Question   Not to decide is to decide. Harvey Cox If you decide not to decide, you are still making a decision. If you don’t make up your mind, that is a decision to not make … Continue reading →

Don’t Follow Me What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying.”                                                … Continue reading →

A Metaphor of Wholeness Blindness   I think that I shall never see; The interconnected wholeness of a tree  I think of the tree as nature’s metaphoric gift (maybe my version of “the tree of life”). You can’t see the forest … Continue reading →