Showing posts with label brief thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brief thoughts. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Don't take this personally

Really? How?

Life seems personal to me. We experience life personally.

How could we avoid taking most things personally? Seems kind of difficult to find any other way to take things.

All politics is local. Indeed, I suspect most people take politics personally.

Most people take their lives personally.

Dontcha think?

 

Monday, August 04, 2008

Wisdom looks toward the future

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom.
Knowledge is of the past;
wisdom is of the future.

Vernon Cooper,
Lumbee elder


Perhaps this puzzle piece connects to another from two years ago: Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Words to think by

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.


(Carl Sagan)

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Misery creates company

Misery loves company.

Often, misery needs company.

Too often, misery creates company.

And that's a problem, don't you think?

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Show me, don't tell me

Some people like to stand on soapboxes and shout loudly at me. They like to proclaim that they have my best interests at heart.

Personally, I prefer consistently repeated behaviors by people who demonstrate that they have my best interests at heart.

Just sayin'

Saturday, September 01, 2007

How do you put out a fire?

I've noticed some people like to advocate "fighting fire with fire". Their contribution to conversation is to declare, with absolute confidence,

Ya gotta fight fire with fire!

Thing is, most firefighters I know use water.

 

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Culture is pervasive

That's part of what makes it "culture" in the first place, don't you think?


Culture: the things we do, and the stories we tell about doing them.

More at BluePuzzle.org ...

 

Friday, May 04, 2007

Saramago's observation of conflict

 

Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.


A quote from Blindness, by Jose Saramago.

 

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Sides of a coin

“Oh, they're just two sides of the same coin.”

Yeah, well, have you ever looked at a coin?

The sides are different.


Today is a good day to vote.