While browsing through my trove of past Weekend Inspiration posts this week, I came upon this one from 2012. Reading it again, I was not only moved by the memory of that painful week nearly 6 ½ years ago, but also by the ever timeliness of the truth that we […]

The English novelist Virginia Woolf once wrote, “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” Violence, turmoil, envy, greed, animosity, power lust and corruption has proliferated our world since humans first interacted. Any thought or prayer for global peace and harmony is, in my view, ineffectual. To quote the great American […]

A number of years ago, I read the autobiography of John Wooden. His book is titled They Call Me Coach (McGraw Hill). Wooden was the legendary coach of the UCLA men’s basketball program. He passed away on June 4, 2010 at the venerable age of 99. He was not just […]

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era. As a lawyer, member of Parliament, and Queen’s Counsel, Bacon […]