Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
“Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.” ~ Bertrand Russell I’m quite certain most of us, in this time of war and broken politics, have found ourselves asking: haven’t we’ve seen this picture before? Is history repeating itself? In Bertrand Russell’s 1950 Nobel acceptance speech he attempts to answer this question. His perspective is raw and unvarnished but in … Continue reading What Makes Us Tick?
“Who is good if he knows not who he is. And who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with another always?” ~ Epictetus I, at one point in my life, lived as if I were imperishable. It was only when I was beaten up, thrown … Continue reading On Love and Loss
Friends, If you haven’t already, we invite you to explore the Just a Thought website: Pat & Marsha…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… “Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.” — Carl Jung, Two-plus years of COVID and more than a month of the Ukraine war have blown a hole through my sanity. Try as we will to insulate ourselves from all this bad news, … Continue reading How I Find My Balance
“The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.” — Khalil Gibran It appears war might claim another limb on our tree as it has so many times … Continue reading Ode to a Cedar (with Otissus)
It’s impossible to describe the enormity of the change that has been set upon the world with Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. Certainly, the world I’ve known since my birth in 1948 has suddenly evaporated. Ambassador George Kennan, the architect of the “containment” policy in the the post-World-War-II age wrote: “Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that … Continue reading Children in War