Sometimes I have to let a blog post topic brew awhile before I can actually write it. This is one of those posts. I’ve actually had this one in draft with a few notes for quite awhile, waiting until I had let my thoughts percolate and drip through the filter of my mind. Okay, so…
Patriotism
Patriotism isn’t a solely American virtue. People the world over experience love, pride and loyalty to the nation of their birth. None of us has any control over where we were born so I find it interesting to encounter undue pride over this accident of birth. I think we often forget that the British…
A Year in a Word
Yesterday I posted about my plans for the coming year and my attempt to choose a word to represent 2011. After sleeping on it one more night, I’ve made my decision. I’ve really wrestled with coming up with just the right word to evoke my dreams and aspirations for 2011. I started by thinking over…