I came from a pretty tough neighborhood. We'd have been called juvenile delinquents, only our
neighborhood couldn't afford a sociologist.

-Bob Hope

 

 

Celebrate the 150th anniversary
of the Gettysburg Address

take the challenge to
LEARN THE ADDRESS

 

Ken Burns Facebook

 

 

 

Follow but thy star;

Thou canst not miss at last a glorious haven.

-Dante

 

                        

Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going."

-Keith Olbermann, GQ November 2013, Interview with Michael Hainey
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Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

-Plato, Theaetetus

 

Because the scope of the Ring is not much less than the world itself, no single interpretation will do. But try to understand it we must. Wagner himself used it to seek self-understanding. And he seems at last to have understood that the immense world his music creates and transforms in the Ring is the outer world of nature and, even more, the inner world of the human soul.

-M. Owen Lee
Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we
make ourselves happy, but how we may make
ourselves worthy of happiness.

-Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

 

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi

The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life’s highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished. That is where we are now.

And so, we decided to go to Washington and to use any means of legitimate nonviolent protest necessary to move our nation and our government on a new course of social, economic, and political reform. In the final analysis, SCLC decided to go to Washington because, if we did not act, we would be abdicating our responsibilities as an organization committed to nonviolence and freedom. We were keeping that commitment, and we called on America to join us in our Washington campaign. In this way, we could work creatively against the despair and indifference that so often caused our nation to be immobilized during the cold winter and shaken profoundly in the hot summer.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Edited by Clayborne Carson

 

Robert F. Kennedy said, "…I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country which we all love, a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We’ve had difficult times in the past. We will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence. It is not the end of lawlessness and it’s not the end of disorder. But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, want justice for all human beings that abide in our land. And let’s dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago:
to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
Thank you very much."

RFK, April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination announcement

 

 

 

Every effect is the consequence of preceding causes, and the better we grasp this law of sequence and cyclicity,
the greater our command over subsequent events.

-Case

 

 

                       

 

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

-Shakespeare: Hamlet I, iii

 

 

By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.

-Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America.
The Thirteen Resolutions, March 22, 1775

 

 

Kindness can charm a snake out of it's hole.

-tradition

 

 

The Will moves the understanding to see

When it wishes to Love.

-St. Catherine of Sienna

 

 

Resurfacing with a reflection after my accident and surgery

That although every man and woman is a star we are all contributing agents within the monad.

Meditation
To be modest and unaffected with our superiors is duty; with our equals, courtesy; with our inferiors, nobleness.

 

                

For anyone who didn't see David Letterman's take on this: (And it's
a true story...) oldie but a goodie!

HIT THE FLOOR!

On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine.
She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room.
But first she wanted to stash the quarters in her room. "I'll be right back and we'll go to eat," she told her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.
As she was about to walk into the elevator she noticed two men already aboard.

Both were black.
One of them was tall...very tall...an intimidating figure.
The woman froze.
Her first thought was: These two are going to rob me. Her next
thought was: Don't be a bigot, they look like perfectly nice gentlemen.
But racial stereotypes are powerful, and fear immobilized her.
She stood and stared at the two men.
She felt anxious, flustered and ashamed.
She hoped they didn't read her mind but Gosh, they had to know what she was thinking!!!
Her hesitation about joining them in the elevator was all too obvious now.
Her face was flushed.
She couldn't just stand there, so with a mighty effort of will she picked up one foot and stepped forward and followed with the other foot and was on the elevator.
Avoiding eye contact, she turned around stiffly and faced the elevator doors as they closed.
A second passed, and the another second, and then another.
Her fear increased!
The elevator didn't move.
Panic consumed her.
My God, she thought, I'm trapped and about to be robbed!
Her heart plummeted.
Perspiration poured from every pore.
Then one of the men said, "Hit the floor."
Instinct told her to do what they told her.
The bucket of quarters flew upwards as she threw out her arms and collapsed on the elevator floor.
A shower of coins rained down on her.
Take my money and spare me, she prayed.
More seconds passed.
She heard one of the men say politely, "Ma'am, if you'll just tell
us what floor you're going to, we'll push the button."
The one who said it had a little trouble getting the words out.
He was trying mightily to hold in a belly laugh.
The woman lifted her head and looked up at the two men.
They reached down to help her up.
Confused, she struggled to her feet.
"When I told my friend here to hit the floor," said the average sized one, "I meant that he should hit the elevator button for our floor.
I didn't mean for you to hit the floor, ma'am." He spoke genially.
He bit his lip.
It was obvious he was having a hard time not laughing.
The woman thought: My God, what a spectacle I've made of myself.
She was humiliated to speak.
She wanted to blurt out an apology, but words failed her. How do you apologize to two perfectly respectable gentlemen for behaving as though they were going to rob you?
She didn't know what to say.
The three of them gathered up the strewn quarters and refilled her bucket.
When the elevator arrived at her floor they then insisted on walking her to her room.
She seemed a little unsteady on her feet, and they were afraid she might not make it down the corridor.
At her door they bid her a good evening.
As she slipped into her room she could hear them roaring with laughter as they walked back to the elevator.
The woman brushed herself off.
She pulled herself together and went downstairs for dinner with her husband.
The next morning flowers were delivered to her room - a dozen roses.
Attached to EACH rose was a crisp one hundred dollar bill.
The card said: "Thanks for the best laugh we've had in years."

It was signed;
Eddie Murphy
Michael Jordan

 

 

   Martin Luther King, Jr.

was here!

I must confess that I have enjoyed being on this mountaintop and I am tempted to want to stay here and retreat to a more quiet and serene life. But something within reminds me that the valley calls me in spite of all its agonies, dangers, and frustrating moments.

- Martin Luther King, Jr., Address at Recognition Dinner in Atlanta
January 27, 1965

 

 

 

Once when Jesus was preaching, a lawyer stood up and interrupted him, “Sir,” he said, “what must I do to possess eternal life?” The man was not sincere. He was a Pharisee, and his purpose in asking the question was to confuse Jesus and cause Him to say something which would hurt His reputation with the people. Knowing this, Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law; how readest thou?" He answered, “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul, with all thy strength, with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.” “Thou hast answered rightly,” said Jesus. “Do this, and thou shall live.”

Feeling that he was getting the worst of the argument the lawyer tried to save his face by asking another question. He said, “And who is my neighbor?”

Jesus, answering, said, “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who stripped him and, having wounded him, went away, leaving him half dead. Now it chanced that a certain priest went down the same way and, seeing him, passed by. In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by.

“But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near to him and, seeing him, was moved with compassion. Going up to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine and, setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

“The next day he took out two pence and gave it to the host, saying, 'Take care of him and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I on my return will repay thee.'

“Which of these three, in thy opinion,” Jesus asked the lawyer, “was neighbor to him that fell among robbers?” He said, “He that showed mercy to him.” Jesus said to him, “Go, and do thou in like manner.”

 

 

Ravi Shankar

The late sitarist, composer and musical ambassador Ravi Shankar,
left this dimension Tuesday at age 92. His influence comes through
a universal sphere of consciousness, from the name that fan and
onetime Shankar student John Coltrane gave his son, to the way
that the sound of the sitar seeped into who knows how many pop
productions in the decades that followed and Shankar's first encounter
with George Harrison in 1966.

Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin-West Meets East- Prabhati - You Tube
They began performing together in 1966. In short order, a first recording emerged: West Meets East,
which included an intoxicatingly sweet duet for sitar and violin called "Swara-Kakali."
East Meets West

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