Archive for Month: May 2021
Running for Cover
I know about running for cover. When I heard bullets whistling over my head on guard duty in Vietnam, my instincts kicked in. I ducked down into my sandbag bunker for safety and protection. To be clear, I was defending an apartment building with high walls in Saigon – not hacking through the dense jungle exposed to sniper attacks, venomous snakes and nasty traps. Still, I experienced the natural instinct to shrink down and protect Read More
Our Existential Moments
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” Simone de Beauvoir “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” Nietzsche “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” Sartre I recently listened to one of the best speeches I have ever heard, by Bryan Stevenson, a MacArthur genius fellow and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. He opened his speech by sharing his experience as a nine Read More