Resilience has been on my mind a lot lately, for a few reasons. Some prompted by my own experiences, some from reading about the exploits…
Two triggers for today’s post. At first poles apart, one about history from an article in a newspaper. The other about sport from an on-line…
I read an extraordinary example of gratitude and doing good in an article by Charles Krauthammer in the National Post last week. It was the…
Overcoming adversity usually causes us to think of people responding to a bad start in life, or conquering serious challenges arising from situations they find…
When experiencing adversity of some sort, it’s often difficult to find things to have gratitude for. That’s when we need to have faith that “This…
As a non-American, I am always amazed at how much money, time and effort Presidential contenders of one party spend attacking one another and not…
60 Years ago today Disneyland opened in Anaheim California. That’s old news, but the story of Disney is a lesson in imagination and overcoming adversity.…
Nurture or nature? The age-old debate of what shapes us. What is the major reason that decides whether any one of us joins the line…
Today is the 10th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of 3 trains on the London Underground and within an hour, a bus on a busy…
Last Sunday at our small rural church, our vicar spoke of his concern that 41% of the estimated $164 trillion global wealth was in the…