Since The Constant Choice was published, I’ve been getting a regular stream of responses to the book from friends and others, mostly through email. I’m going to post some of these heartfelt responses, from time to time. Here’s the first, from Charlie Moore: When I received your notice of the publication of The Constant Choice on January…Read More
Gail Blanke sent out a Monday Morning Motivator email this week that stood out. She’s always good, but this one struck home with me. It was a celebration of our flawed state, in comparison with “boring perfection.” Any golfer, who can laugh off the frustrations, knows how much truth there is to this: if you…Read More
Love Is Forgetting Yourself
In compassion
Last Christmas, Maureen Down printed a guest column for her at the New York Times, from a close friend, Father Kevin, a priest who seems to work wonders with the dying and the suffering—even though he’s honest about his own human reluctance to enter into the suffering of others. She said that once Father Kevin…Read More
We Could Be Heroes . . .
In altruism
As a follow-up to a previous post about The Hero Report, I did a brief interview with Ari Kohen and Matt Langdon, about their study of and advocacy for heroism. When I came across their work that examines and promotes heroism in ordinary lives, it seemed both unusual but also one of those instances when…Read More
At the Sundance this year, my wife and I were fascinated by many of the new films on view, but one of the ones that impressed me, and many others, the most was Blood Brother. It was filmed by Steve Hoover, and it’s about one of his best friends, Rocky Braat. Rocky had a rough…Read More
