The Last Lecture (Professor Randy Pausch)

“Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Professor Randy Pausch.

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Don’t Look Back

Reading the title of this post, did you think that I was talking about the movie ‘Don’t Look Back,’ starring Bob Dylan. ‘Don’t Look Back’ is a 1967 documentary film…

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Wordless Wednesday: Blooming Red Flowers (Hibiscus/Gumamela)

More Wordless Wednesday My brother and I brought our nephews to the barber for their regular haircut. I saw these blooming red flowers and just had to take out my…

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Strangers are family you have yet to come to know

Strangers are family you have yet to come to know

Many years ago, someone told me that strangers are friends you have yet to come to know. It was an ‘aha’ moment back then. How true isn’t it? ‘Stranger’ becomes a temporary word used to describe someone we do not know by name. If we know the name of a person, that person would become an associate or an acquaintance or in a more intimate term – a friend.

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Earth Hour 2009 Signifies a New Start

Earth Hour 2009 was a resounding success. According to Earthhour.org, “… over 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries, hundreds of millions of people have “voted earth” in the world’s…

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