Archive for Month: January 2023

“There are four questions of value in life:  What is sacred?  Of what is the spirit made?  What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?  The answer to each is the same.  Only love.”  Lord Byron “Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”  Joseph Campbell “Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles Read More

“A life that doesn’t know possibility takes in only half the truth.”  Pico Iyer “I’m being rowed through paradise on a river of hell.”  Haga Shahid Ali “Once in a lifetime, hope and history rhyme.”  Sophocles A mentor of mine, Dr. Bill Anthony, told the story of his experience teaching psychology at Boston University.  Bill was the Director of Psychiatric Rehabilitation there and taught graduate and undergraduate classes to students who aspired to be in Read More

We are all familiar with the bias that strategic plans are a waste of time.  Many people hold the belief that too much time and effort are invested in developing strategic plans because, after they are done, they are put on a shelf and collect dust.  The reason that this belief is so widely held is because it’s often true.  The plan becomes a static document that quickly loses its relevance as conditions change.  It Read More

When does an iteration become an aberration?  That’s the question I’ve been struggling with for the past few months. Aberration is defined as a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected – typically one that is unwelcome.  An aberration is something strange that rarely occurs, for example when the thermometer tops 90 degrees in January in Minnesota.  Although, given the acceleration of climate change, that may turn out to be more of an iteration Read More

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.  No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.  This means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fiction way of thinking.”  Isaac Asimov “Man is something that shall be overcome.  Man is a rope, tied between beast Read More