President Jimmy Carter with Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity The web is teeming with advice about what I can do to learn who I truly am. Knowing myself, I’m told, is an important step to achieving greater joy and inner peace. Long ago,…
Catching the “Bad Guy” This week’s blogs have been about the dangers of labeling people (including ourselves) as either ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Here’s my grandson playing the ‘catching-the-bad-guy’ game we all loved as kids. Yes, that’s Ed buried under the mountain of pillows. Why…
Photo Source: Nathan Howard in the Willamette Week A newscaster reported today (August 7, 2020) that “The mayor of Portland, Oregon, a city wracked by nearly 70 consecutive nights of unrest, on Thursday angrily denounced those who attempted to set a police precinct on fire…
I am truly honored to bring you the thinking of today’s guest, Arno Michaelis, a public speaker, author and activist for peace and justice. He was formerly a leader of the white power movement and a founding member of what became the…
In this week’s blogs, I described the extraordinary lives of John R. Lewis, and my father John R. Schmidt. I offered my thoughts about what I must do for my life to become more extraordinary. As is often the case in my Friday “Brief-Blogs,”…
In Monday’s blog, I wrote about the extraordinary lives of two ordinary men: John R. Lewis and John R. Schmidt. I described their remarkable achievements, but never addressed the question: If these two men were ordinary but achieved extraordinary things, why aren’t the rest…