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By James Strock
The Grammy Awards ceremonies resemble all-star games in sports: they assemble dream teams. Individual performers are plucked from familiar groups and settings and genres. They are recombined in …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWavBYKE5Ec Theodore Roosevelt died on Monday, January 6, 1919. It's a fitting time to take stock of TR and his legacy amid the challenges of a new century. …
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Congratulations if you’ve made it through your goals for the first few days of the New Year. That is no small thing, taking first steps. Nonetheless, it may be timely to ask: are your resolutions …
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By James Strock
Make those New Year's resolutions—but not just yet.... Before you take on those new tasks and perspectives and practices for the New Year, what are you leaving behind with the Old Year? …
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”