“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor E. Frankl Our world is facing a time of unprecedented global threat, as the…

Oops! I did it again….
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill

A new year… Older… Wiser??…. Happier….
“All I will say is we get wiser as we get older. And that what I’m looking for in life is the same as I always have: happiness, peacefulness and joy.” George Clooney

Hope: nature or nurture?
“Hope is a talent, like any other.” Storm Jameson.

When hope is cruel….
“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.” Friedrich Nietzsche

When all hope is lost…..
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King

Hope springs eternal in the human breast ….. but why?
“Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain.”

Hope: is it a feeling? is it a thought?
Somewhere, over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Arlen and Harburg

What would you like to ask your ancestors?
“What do we miss when we don’t have an opportunity to ask questions of our family members at critical points in their lives? What do we want to pass on to future generations? What do we hope to learn from those who came before us?”

The Fairy Dust of Fiction
“To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from’’ Carson McCullers