If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
—Tenzin Gyatsu, the 14th Dalai Lama
24 October 2011
23 October 2011
A drop of ink may make a million think.
—Mark Twain (aka Samual Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910
(See more posts re: Mark Twain on this blog here).
22 October 2011
Anonymous Hugging…
(spreading, around the globe)
Keetra Dean Dixon is a vivacious, talented, young artist/designer working from an often-frazzled NYC-based workshop. The Anonymous Hugging Wall began as a 2008 installation in her native Alaska—it’s since been replicated far and wide… attesting to the popularity of her premise that the world really could use more hugs.
(I was privileged to have dinner with Keetra last night).
21 October 2011
A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, (1828-1906)
20 October 2011
Signs of hope…
(almost everywhere you look)
19 October 2011
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
18 October 2011
Wise words unheeded…
—Martin Luther King, Jr., (from Beyond Vietnam)
17 October 2011
99%
Not vague at all, actually…
16 October 2011
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
—Greek proverb
