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HELLO 2024. I THINK WE’VE MET BEFORE

HELLO 2024. I THINK WE’VE MET BEFORE

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In the intro­duc­tion to his huge­ly pop­u­lar 1950s radio series “This I Believe”, CBS News broad­cast­er Edward R Mur­row said:“We hard­ly need to be remind­ed that we are liv­ing in an age of con­fu­sion - a lot of us have trad­ed in our beliefs for bit­ter­ness and cyn­i­cism or for a heavy pack­age of despair or even a quiv­er­ing por­tion of hys­te­ria.… Read the rest

IT’S TIME TO HIT PAUSE AND REFRESH

IT’S TIME TO HIT PAUSE AND REFRESH

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The mid-term elec­tions hav­ing defied pre­dic­tions and avoid­ed cat­a­stro­phe, it would be a wise deci­sion for the U.S. and a wel­come relief for the rest of the world, if Amer­i­cans heed an obser­va­tion from one of their most tren­chant home­spun philoso­phers, Mark Twain: “The right word may be effec­tive, but no word was ever as effec­tive as a right­ly timed pause.”… Read the rest