Petulance
There is an immense amount of Petulance in our conversations, discourse, media, and society at large today. It has continued to get worse all over the world over the last decade or two. Is this a symptom of a civilization in reverse? I can understand when kids exhibit petulant behavior when they do not get […]
Intimacy
I am new to the game of golf. It is a frustrating game, to say the least when you are not playing well and lose a dozen balls. You hit the ball and it soars into the sky only to land in the rough and will never be retrieved. And then you hit an amazing […]
Contemporaneous
The whole world is elated when space flights take place. All the people who witnessed it on TV or heard on the radio or even read in the newspapers felt in some way, a part of the journey of the recent two-person flight to the international space station while our feet were firmly on the […]
Inured
We humans have become inured to inhuman behavior. We are now inured to violence at schools and injustice of all sorts in society at large. We have created a society where 800,000 people die due to suicide every year and are one of the leading causes of death in 15-29 year-olds. We have become inured […]
Prudence
Prudence by its very definition is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. Does exhibiting Prudence at all times lead us to live a better life or does it prevent us from living a full life? Does it prevent us from being spontaneous, take away from the moment because we […]