“Sonny, I don’t care who you are. Some day you’re going to have to sit on your own bottom.” I … More
Tag: Life
Poetry/Poem – Dil Ki Khair – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
How long does my heart get to be still? How long do you make me wait? How long will you … More
MLK – Last speech (Smithsonian)
“I’ve seen the Promised Land,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in a speech in Memphis on April 3, 1968. H
Grave of fireflies – Studio Ghibli (Japan)
Grave of the Fireflies is a story richly told, with all the ambiguity and second-guesses of the way life is … More
The Curse of Genius – Maggie Fergusson
Kim Ung-yong was a child prodigy in South Korea. Now a civil engineer in his 50s, he feels he was … More
The Unquiet American – Richard Holbrooke
As the life of George F. Kennan shows, individual, original thinking by one lonely person can sometimes illuminate and guide us … More
What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend – (Abigail Disney) – The Cut
Actually, having a jet is a really big deal. If I were queen of the world, I would pass a … More
The Human Soul’s Quest for God – Harold Kushner
How often can you look at the mountains around here and not be bored? How long can you sit by … More
Lessons from my Father – Jim Carrey
When you compromise and you fail it really hurts, so you might as well fail at what you love – … More
