“Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.” – Epictetus
As the days grow longer in the Northern Hemisphere we detect the changes around us. The changes were happening anyway, but it seems to accelerate. Just this morning I watched the sun rise through a window where I haven’t seen the sun rise since last autumn. A mix of travel and weather conditions made it…
The funny thing about the first few days of a New Year is that I catch myself looking forward quite often. There’s nothing wrong with looking forward, just as there’s nothing wrong with looking back towards where you’ve been, as long as you’re grounded in the present. One of the things I love about Mary…
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne The ground rules are simple, really. You either embrace where you are in this world or you don’t. Some folks are quite happy with where they landed in…
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” – Seneca The other night I was walking alone on the street. Except I wasn’t alone at all. Two great horned owls were calling out to each other high in the pine trees, moving silently in a dance of their own around…
Last night I won $225 in a Super Bowl office pool I didn’t participate in, from an office I don’t work in, and had little knowledge of before I was told I’d won. My wife picked a random square at her job, wrote my name on it and the score aligned with that random number….
Another offseason walk on the beach brought me to Salisbury Beach. I walk for all the reasons you might expect, and I seek out open space to give my mind room to expand. Salisbury in summer is a mess of arcades, pizza joints and go-carts. It’s slowly gentrifying, but it’s no Rye. Salisbury is a…