Most of us struggle to find what we do best: natural talent and circumstance is not aligned.
But on this rare occasion, he could hear it, clearly — from the beginning.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings,
there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras
For he was a Natural.
A Composer that became a composer, from the start.
God bless the child,
who’s got his own.
Billy Holiday
“I am sorry, I am trying to take the youngest first, I want to save a nation.”
He failed to save a nation. But he did save thousands, ten thousands, maybe even up to one hundred thousand.
“He was the most tireless, persistent, stubborn person — he was single minded in his determination for his mission.”
Meet my father from one of his students view.
It was really an impossible task for anybody. Especially for Jack.
Except for him.
There he was in the small room — secret service keeping him there, he, not knowing what was happening.
Jack had essentially had cut him off from power for three years.
Powerless. A Fox on a Leash.
The first Vice President, had described it as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
But then one of Kennedy’s aides, came to him in that small hospital room, and said with some solemnity — “Mr President..”
The person still has the record for being the youngest astronaut in space.
It was quite a Ride.
“Let’s Light This Candle”
Alan Shepard
He had a voice, and he had found it.
And his natural talent was to teach, using that voice.
He did what he loved, and loved what he did.
“Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs…” [The 8th Habit]
And that’s what he did, for he was a Teacher Idealist, a Proactive Idealist.
An Educator. “… as inherent in the word educator, it has to be educed by an individual skilled in drawing out potentials. In this interaction the Diplomatic Initiators have an edge over all others, including the other Idealists. They seem uncannily able to influence those who seek to improve what they say and do at work.” — Dr. David Keirsey
Miles: “Pain takes away pain.”
Dr. Richard Baer: “Really, hows does that work?”
Miles: “Outside pain make inside pain hurt less.”
Dr. Richard Baer: “You mean if you cut yourself on the outside, your feelings will hurt less?”
Miles: “Yeah.”
Dr. Richard Baer: “Where did you learn this?”
“I don’t know. Jensen does it, too.”
She woke up in pain. She had just had a baby by Caesarian, but she didn’t know it or anything else. She felt alone and scared.
“The nurse kept calling me Karen.”
Thomas Szasz is a Rational who has been telling us that the Emperor has no clothes.
Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
It was a comfortable, almost a Tom Sawyer existence. It seemed to be a much simpler time. Yes, I was young.
It was the 50s.
Well, actually in this particular case, it was played in the innocent 60’s as if it was the 50’s.
He was like those wise, kind, and forgiving fathers of the 50’s. The time of Ike, who protected and provided for us, hiding the complexities and real dangers of life from us. TV fathers and mothers of the 50s and 60s. Providing and Protecting.
Father Knows Best, My Three Sons, The Donna Reed Show, The Rifleman, Leave it to Beaver, Sky King, and … Continue reading You can never go home, again
Admit it, you know the scene… Meg Ryan.
Ok, another hint.
“I’ll have what she’s having” — Ok, now you know.
That Friendly Fun.
Making fun of the foibles of human relations, was her forte. Taking a jocular look at sensitive subjects. Real issues.