“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
What is it we can do today that when looked upon tomorrow, we will be very glad we spent that time?
Animal Communication
A friend recently sent me a picture of a dog saved from a burning house by a fireman, previously unknown to the dog. The dog sat quietly after rescue for half an hour, about fifty feet from where the firemen finally chose to sit and rest. The dog raced over ...
Possibility in Death
A few nights ago I saw a story about an Air Force pilot from WWII whose body was found after being missing for sixty-four years. I wonder why death sometimes seems to produce more fear and sadness than gratitude for life? ...
To Be At Peace
As of last week, we are working with people in Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany as well as the United States. It is very exciting, indeed! It will probably come as no surprise that many of them share a desire for a planet that is well and at peace ...
Teaching
This school year marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the first organized class I ever taught. Now I understand why my mentor and dear friend, Albert Boothby, wondered so often how his first students’ lives had turned out ...
Thoughtfulness
Today I found a note, a few pages down on the pad of paper I keep in the kitchen, that my daughter, Joy, had left a few weeks ago during her visit. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t like discovering loving-kindness waiting in not so normal places? ...
Loving-Kindness
Today I read the annual report of a company that provides 150M dollars of programs to children who are abused or neglected. The words love or loving-kindness were never mentioned. After the head is healed, I wonder where the heart is sent? ...
Tranquility is Not Caused
I am privileged to live in the country, where there are often long periods of no discernible sound at all. When I lived in a city, I hardly noticed that there was always noise. I wonder why tranquility is often confused with silence? ...
Lightning Bugs
A few nights ago, I drove into the driveway late in the evening. As I turned off the lights, I saw a few lightning bugs in the field across from the house. As I watched, I was instantly transported to a hundred moments in childhood, the wonder of bugs with ...
Passage
My Mother died recently. All four of her children were there with Mom the day she died. We were able to express our love and affection. As much as we were all there for her, heart and soul, our Mother was the one who had to do the dying. I wonder why it takes someone's ...
Presence
In the movie “My Girl,” Macauley Culkin and Anna Chlumsky share a beautifully captured, innocent, sweet, kind, gentle, magical first kiss? Two days later, Thomas J., Macauley’s character, dies unexpectedly. I wonder how magical this minute, right now, might be if I actually “saw” (think “captured”) everything it contained? ...
Posted on July 21, 2017, 6:00 pm By The Boothby Institute
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