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The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You.

It’s so easy in these zany times to find something each week to complain about. (If you’re receiving this email, you know that.) All one has to do is look at the current state of our politics and the rage boils over. No matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on, you must…

Real Life “Spiderman” Saves Child in France [VIDEO]

We throw around the word “hero” too often these days. But when it comes to Mamoudou Gassama, the immigrant from Mali who scaled a building in Paris to save a child, the word is quite frankly not powerful enough. Here’s video of both the rescue and French President Emmanuel Macron offering Gassama citizenship. If you’ve already seen it,…

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A Work By American Poet Jim Moore

A few weeks back, I shared with you a poem by Rudyard Kipling and the response was terrific. This week I’m sharing with you another poem. It is by an American poet named Jim Moore and it was displayed for several years in the New York City subway system. With Memorial Day upon us, it…

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The Last Straw?

Straws kill.You probably read that sentence and thought, “How hard would you have to stab someone with a straw to kill them?” Well, the answer is pretty hard. But that’s not what I’m talking about.No, the problem is we’re using over 500 million plastic straws a day in America! Five. Hundred. Million. And our waste management…

4 Year-Old Superhero Has Power to Feed the Homeless.

Normally when sharing a video, I like to write a description of what you’re about to see. This week, the video’s title speaks for itself: “4 year-old superhero has the power to feed the homeless.” If you’re having trouble remaining optimistic in these times, spend three minutes watching the story of Austin Perrine below. The future…

Shaquem Griffin.

This past weekend the NFL held it’s annual draft and hundreds of young men saw their life’s dream become a reality. Many of these athletes have overcome tremendous obstacles with dedication and perseverance and none more so than now-Seattle Seahawk Shaquem Griffin. Griffin is like many of the remarkable athletes in the NFL. He runs…

A Short Post on the Importance of Soil

I never imagined soil could be exhausted. But we’ve overrun, overgrown and exhausted everything else on the planet. Why not our soil too? In a recent Financial Times piece called Why Brexit Could Boost British Farming, landscape designer Kim Wilkie brilliantly wrote: “The secret is in the soil. Think of soil as a biological community of living organisms rather…

Dogs Deserve Better. (4/13/16)

By now, you’ve heard the story. A flight attendant for United Airlines insisted on putting a 10-month old bulldog in the overhead bin on a flight from Houston to Laguardia. The dog tragically passed away. The family of the puppy mourned. The airline…apologized. I was incensed and still am. How can a human being act so…

Already Missing Stephen Hawking (4/6/18)

I was once on an 11-hour flight next to the world’s most boring human being. This was one of those guys who thought every banal detail of his job was fascinating. He thought his spreadsheets were poetry. Spoiler alert: they weren’t. When I landed I called my daughter from the airport and said, “Just one of…

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