Cheers. Or to your good health. Whatever. “Sláinte” is your typical Gaelic toast when you clink glasses and have a drink with your best friends or your best friends for the moment. So on this St. Patrick’s Day, let me take this moment to say sláinte to you!
Robert Rogers Robert Rogers was born in Methuen, Massachusetts – twenty minutes from where I currently live. His family moved to what was then the wilderness of Dunbarton, New Hampshire a few years later. Rogers is famous for leading a group of colonists in the French and Indian War. There are some who will point…
“A mistake repeated more than once is a decision” – Paulo Coelho “The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.” – Richard Rohr When you live long enough you start to lose some of the hard edge that once defined you. That sarcasm you voice to others was nothing like the…
“Build streaks. Do the work every single day. Blog daily. Write daily. Ship daily. Show up daily. Find your streak and maintain it.” – Seth Godin, The Practice I made a relatively big deal (by my standards) of blog number 900. Well, this is 914 and I just keep quietly going. I have some exciting…
I live roughly a mile and a half from a place called America’s Stonehenge. It’s also known as Mystery Hill, and I like that name a bit more because it infers that there’s much about the site that is unknown. Here’s a great description of the site from the mysteryhillnh.info web site: The Mystery Hill…
“‘There’s a Sanskrit word, darshan,’ Jon said as we gazed up at Konka. ‘It suggests a face-to-face encounter with the sacred on earth; with a physical manifestation of the holy.’ I hadn’t known the word, but I was glad to have learnt it. Darshan seemed a good alternative to the wow! that I usually emitted…
“That’s the whole secret: to do things that excite you.” – Ray Bradbury Truth be told, there are many things we do every day that aren’t exciting, yet we keep on doing them anyway. This is the attractive rut of doing the same thing: familiar and predictable and comfortable. But does it stir the soul?…
