The New England Patriots have completed a perfect regular season, beating the New York Giants 38-35.
Give the Giants credit for not rolling over and playing dead to a team superior to them.
Give the Patriots credit for not giving up after being down 12 points.
On a cold night, both teams gave examples of how to live.
“The Bucket List” is a movie out in January with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. It’s about two terminal cancer patients who travel around the world checking off their wish lists bbefore they die. My question is–why wait? I understand there may be tangible circumstances involved. But even then, what do you have in mind? And what are you doing to check off your bucket list before you kick the bucket?
The writer of this story points out that famed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer shouldn’t tinker around with his Modernist masterpieces. But what should a 100-year-old man who still has so much life and creativity in him do? Just moulder until it’s time for him to go? I don’t know much about architecture, but Niemeyer’s work, especially his cathedral in Brasilia, helped define the look of 1960s structures–stark, yet swoopy and somebody’s vision of the future. Let a master tinker.
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Alonzo Mourning has overcome such much in his career–two comebacks, one from a potentially fatal kidney ailment–that most of us don’t have much of an excuse. After a bad knee injury last week, it looks like his career may be over. While he’s accomplished a lot on the court, he’s accomplished more off it, as an example of how to overcome adversity, and through his charitable works. He’s come a long way from Indian River High School in Virginia, to Georgetown University, and the NBA. He’s a tall light for the rest of us to be guided by. If there is a lesson in giving, and not giving in, it’s in ‘Zo. Thanks man.
When you turn 100 years old, what will you be doing? Playing jazz, like this man? Writing a book? Imparting knowledge to your great-grandchildren?
We’re all living longer–we need to figure out how to adjust our quality of life to the fact that we’ll be rolling right along into our 80s. I’m actually looking forward to having distinguished gray hair–just not yet, though.
I don’t think I’ll retire and play shuffleboard until they stick me in the ground. I want to write, travel, continue to seek. This rolling stone shouldn’t gather moss.
There have been stories around Kansas City, Mo., about a man who gave away $100 bills to people he saw in need. He wanted nothing more than to simply–no publicity at all. A reporter discovered his identity last year, and decided to let the world in. Before he died of cancer this year, he spread his message of kindness to others, and sought others to carry on his deeds. Today, they carry on his legacy of helping others. And even if you don’t have a spare $100, you can always give your heart, soul, spirit and time.
Years ago, I’d love to go out to Coney Island, have a Nathan’s hot dog, walk the boardwalk, and watch the old guys fish from the pier.
In Jersey City, N.J., there’s a pier jutting out into the Hudson, with a glorious view of lower Manhattan. Feeling the sun’s rays in the morning was a treat, and the view at night was to die for.
So it saddened me to see this in the Economist. I hope piers don’t disappear. It’s a way for us landlubbers to touch the sea, feel its seeming infinity, dream of far-away lands, contemplate our place now. It’s a home by the sea, so we can feel at one with it.
The Economist is a very well-written magazine, and this week’s Lexington column shows why. It’s about the pessimism that seems to be pervasive in the U.S. Yes, things seem kind of cloudy for us, but Americans, as is our nature, are an optimist breed. The first three paragraphs of the story explain why.
Every project starts with the germ of an idea. Something rattling around in your head, something you want to achieve, accomplish. You may put it aside, dismiss it as nonsense. But the idea never goes away. It’s always ready to be picked up.
This is that sort of idea. What I am attempt to do is troll through the news, and find examples of personal development, as guideposts to light the way. This idea has been kicking around in me for a while, and I decided to give it a shot. I’ll post infrequently, or whenever the spirit moves me. I’ll still have my original blog, but that will be more personal, more me. This is another way to connect to the world, and draw strength from it.
