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What holds people up, makes them stand vertical? There’s simple answers and complex ones. There are God-fearin’ folk who would say, “God is the skeleton that supports the human frame.” But if I’m asked a similar question, I’d assume the asker wanted a more specific articulation. So I’d offer, for starters that people prop themselves …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character
You know good and well Tetris life doesn’t work. Is there anybody 25-40 years old who didn’t play Tetris at some point, who didn’t wait for the long slender piece to get you 6 rows deleted? The piece sometimes appeared, relieving all fears just before those blocks stacked up but more often than not the …
There’s a reason why the truth intimidates us so. Better yet there’s several. The first principal reason the truth is offensive to people is that it often flies squarely in the face of materialism. People smarter than I wax eloquent on the airwaves defending strange assertions that present money as the end all be all. …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character
Preachers used to tell this story about a guy who prayed for help after his boat capsized out at sea. Apparently the story goes that a man was treading water when passers by offered a life preserver, a raft and even a ladder from a coast guard chopper among other forms of rescue. Nevertheless the …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character
It could be that we inhale far more than what we need to breathe. In 1999, I spent two weeks in Manila trying to land a job in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). I rode around town in “Jeepneys” – these undersized transporters that looked like the offspring of a city bus and psychedelic taxi. …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills
Ten years later I still remember that it was a Tuesday morning. I remember that I was watching it all in real time on one of those old tube televisions. I didn’t have a flat screen. But on 9-12-11 I stand before kids who range in age from 11-13 and they genuinely don’t remember what …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character
