Recently, I saw a little cartoon with a sharp-toothed imp, all in green, smiling up at me from the screen and he was accompanied by the motto: Don’t be the best. Be the only. I love that. It takes the notion of achievement out of the competitive realm and into the one that actually counts,…Read More
When he was 12, Dong Woo Jang decided to make a traditional Korean bow using only the materials he could find in the woods. He can’t remember why, exactly. Like many children, especially in the Korean educational system, which is famous for its high expectations for achievement, he lived in a stressful world. His parents…Read More
Thy Will Be Done
In choosing good
Recently I had a reason to revisit these sacred words from a prayer that gets repeated daily by more than 2 billion Christians on this planet. God to me is a synonym for goodness, love and compassion. So whenever I hear the Lord’s Prayer my mind goes to all the great illuminators, the great figures…Read More
The Mission Continues is an organization that gives returning veterans a way to keep employing the skills they learned on missions overseas. They’re willing to go nearly anywhere to lend help in an organized way: from schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District to the neighborhoods ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. In a way, they’re…Read More
In the New York Times not long ago, Andrew Solomon wrote, with both pathos and empathy, about the psychological roots of mass killing. He adopted a contrarian angle on the whole event, and the issues surrounding it. In our rush to figure out a way of preventing future killings, he pointed out, we are ignoring…Read More
