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Stories Define Us
"We’re a storytelling species. Stories are how we identify with a tribe or create a tribe of our own. Telling stories is in our DNA. Stories feed us, they nourish our souls, and satisfy our minds. Telling stories is what drives writers, painters, dancers, actors, musicians."
Judgment as Teacher
"The moral of the tale was our collective inability to ponder the tragedies and sorrows that befall us as human beings in a direct way. Our curious tendency is to speed away from our own misfortunes while slowing to gape at someone else’s." ...
Lines From Alachua: Words I plan…
"To fill that void,
Is my bottled message
Already set adrift on fantasizing seas
With lines I one day plan to pen." ...
Anger in the Land
"Anger serves no one well, and consideration is a sign of strength, not weakness. Let’s please be gentle with each other." ...
The Greatest Teacher Who Never Lived (Part 3)
“It’s not all of you. There are human societies that value every single day, every hour. Most of those have a life expectancy of 40, 50 years max, but still…” ...
The Greatest Teacher Who Never Lived (Part 2)
"The biggest problem you humans have is you think you can control things. That even goes for things that have already happened!" ...
The Greatest Teacher Who Never Lived
"If you lived every day expecting me to drop by that night, you’d use every second better." ...
Why I Love The Friendship Bench
"Our Friendship Bench is perhaps the only place I’m able to be utterly vulnerable and openly-sharing with my own feelings and opinions, no matter the topic. To experience criticism or rejection there is inconceivable." ...
A New Perspective on Giving vs. Receiving
"It’s not better to give OR to receive. Both gestures have equal weight." ...