Loyalty

Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when … [Read more...]

Bad Diets, Bad Results

Now that the holiday barbecue is long gone, and the empty beer bottles comfort each other at the bottom of the recycling bin, the guilt of a face well fed has taken over. "You can never outwork a bad diet", a good friend told me. As someone who … [Read more...]

Love or Perfection: which comes first?

Do I love you because you are perfect? Or, are you perfect because I love you? Each of us would answer in the affirmative to the second question, were it asked about a parent or a sibling or an offspring. However, the standard might shift when … [Read more...]

Words of Wisdom

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill. — Peter Drucker … [Read more...]