Ideas Worth Spreading

Ernest the Earnest

12.21.2010

“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.” ~ Charles Dickens We recently celebrated my father-in-law’s 70th birthday. His middle [...]

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Divergent Thinking and Holistic Perspective

12.20.2010

“Collaboration is the stuff of growth.” ~ Sir Ken Robinson Anyone concerned about the future of the world should spend time considering how we educate our children. I have friends who have children in different educational programs – public schools, private schools, Montessori programs, home schools, international schools. religious schools and so on and I [...]

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Worry and Choice

12.18.2010

“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~Benjamin Franklin Talking somebody down from the wall of worry is not an easy task. To do so you must deftly skirt accusations like “you just don’t understand” and “you’re not hearing me” while reassuring, distracting and refocusing attention on [...]

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Truth and Goodness

12.16.2010

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~ Albert Einstein I’ve often marveled at the ingenuity of those standouts in history who dedicated their lives to the restoration of goodness and truth to their rightful place at the apex human understanding and function. It hasn’t been easy. Human beings [...]

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In Retrospect

12.15.2010

“Righteousness is easy in retrospect.” ~Arthur Schlesinger Jr. How true is that?!? More often than not the right thing to do is the least popular thing to do. Politicians find themselves between a rock and a hard place on this point as reelection concerns are often pitted against the need to support unpopular but clearly [...]

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The Fountain of Life

12.14.2010

“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” ~ Albert Schweitzer Man’s obsession with the discovery of the fountain of youth reaches deep into early history. Whether driven by the desire to overcome his mortality or by the quest to rediscover the key to [...]

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