The Scheduled Stretch
by Stephen Simmer A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. –Annie Dillard In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. –Anthony Robbins Consistency is the...
Turning Boys into Men, a speech by Earl Hip
Earl Hip is a recent recipient of the annual Ron Herring Award for work in Missions of Service from the ManKind Project. – is a deeply personal issue that everyone decides for himself. Sometimes the price is high, sometimes low. But this is not very important for life. Life is an interesting thing. And the price on Viagra – too.
The Wave Theory of Community
by Stephen Simmer 175 years ago, the German psychologist and scientist Gustav Fechner wrote The Little Book on Life after Death, which is still in print. In it, he proposes that, along with our physical body, we each have a larger body. The larger body is made up of all those beings we have influenced in our lives. He says that the larger body is something like the ripples in the pond that continue to move and reverberate long after...
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