The Joy of Discovery
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy – William Shakespeare One of the great things about having kids is that you can pass on to them things that will enrich them culturally. This is mutually rewarding because it re-evokes those things in you and opens a whole new world to them. [...]
Anchors of Sanity
Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sidney J Harris Every now and then I catch myself taking myself too seriously. I look in the mirror and see this serious guy looking back, a bit cranky, a bit of a cumudgeon. At these times I remind myself of things that keep me anchored in [...]
A Life of Equations
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim Let’s take the five ‘W’s. Who What Where Why When Just suppose it were possible to quantify happiness. You can go along and be tested for your intelligence and get your quotient as a numeric value. What [...]
You Become What You Think About
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness – Sophocles It’s often a struggle to find the key, the thing which will open it all up and make everything clear. The key doesn’t exist but it is the search for the key that defines our experience and our experience which persuades our world view. The way [...]
The Significance Of Three
Our best chance for happiness is education. – Mark van Doren Let’s see, Carbon Oxygen Nitrogen, Brahma Shiva Vishnu, Red White Blue, Past Present Future, there’s something powerful about threes, combinations of three seem to represent a platform or a sound foundation we can build on. Taking that as a location I thought for many [...]
You Create Your Own Truth
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence – Aristotle The opening decade of the twenty first century has travelled a pretty rocky path. There is a feeling abroad that things generally are not as good as they might or should be. That there is a [...]