Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people … Continue reading Honesty

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a … Continue reading Bamboozled

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

If you’re going to be a bear you might as well be a Grizzly.