Have you ever had to work with someone who just doesn’t get it? Whatever it is? Maybe you’re trying to explain how a particular program works, or perhaps you’re trying to get them to understand the ethos of your company. Why and how you do what you do. But you have to keep coming back…
End Thinkism
Building on last week’s Penn, I hope I’m not a thinkist. If you missed last week’s Penn, you might be asking, “What is a thinkist?” Well, the short answer is someone who suffers from thinkism. I discovered the concept of thinkism in a novel by James Grippando, and I am now committed to avoiding being…
Don’t be a Thinkist!
It happens to all of us. We read something online that we really enjoy, a post, a news story or just a picture that brightens our day. And then we read the comments that people post. What is it with people? I understand that not everyone will agree with everything. But do folks really need…
You Did What?
I didn’t know whether to be flattered or offended. A while back, I received an e-mail from a preacher asking for my forgiveness. And I wasn’t sure that he had done anything to me that I could forgive him for. Apparently, he had preached some of my messages and had passed them off as his…
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
When Albert Einstein was employed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, his princely salary of $10.000.00 a year made him the highest-paid scientist in the United States and perhaps the world. However, what he made while alive pales compared to what he has made since he died in 1955. In Einstein’s will, he…
The Kingdom is Like a Farmer who Scatters Seed
When I was ten or eleven years old, my parents went insane and bought my sister a horse, it wasn’t long before one horse led to another, and before you knew it, I had been introduced to the concept of farming, at least in the sense that we had a small barn and livestock. When…
Behind Myself
I was walking down the hall at the hospital when I suddenly realized that I was following myself. And I was intrigued. I have been beside myself on different occasions, but I have never been behind myself. Now understand, I wasn’t actually following myself, but it seemed that way. The guy I was following looked…
Alcohol may have been a factor
Have you ever noticed how many accident reports on the news end with the words “alcohol may have been a factor”? Especially in the summertime. The interesting thing is that it doesn’t really seem to concern folks. If every weekend there was an accidental gun death, there would be a national campaign to ban guns. …
Death by Selfie
We are at Beulah Camp this week, and I heard Dr. Andrea Summers comment that more people die from taking selfies than from Shark attacks. And I had to check it out, and she was right. Bizarre.Of course, that led me down a rabbit trail of reading about people taking selfies. Between 2018 and 2021,…
The Peace to Enjoy a Sandwich
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. . . that is the beginning of Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem “If.” It is also a fair description of an eight-second video that has recently gone viral. The video shows a gentleman calmly eating a sandwich in a square in the French…