Apple debuted this ad last night during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Given the discord and rancor in the United States and in the world, the words of Poet Laureate, Maya Angelou, are more relevant today than ever. The poem itself follows the ad.
You’re tired, strung out, and wrung out from the summer of 2016. Work, crime, politics, social media, and social justice. Battles over black lives, blue lives, brown lives, and God help the other color lives that have not made it into the media’s three ring circus. This constant onslaught of death and destruction has left many of us feeling overwhelmed and wondering if life matters at all.
And that’s okay. You’re human. You hurt because you care.
This is a really basic concept.
The vitriol. The violence. The killing. Open carry. AR-15s in the hands of civilians. When and how will it end? America, the clue phone is ringing and the call is for you.
Sunday, June 12, 6:03 a.m. NYTimes: A shooting at an Orlando nightclub has left “mass casualties,” the police said
That’s odd. It’s not like the New York Times to send incorrect news. They must be thinking about the shooting at the Plaza Live from Friday night.
I flipped the TV on the way to the kitchen to make my morning coffee. Images from a few
They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
— Barack Obama
The manner in which you practice being honest defines your character. If the things you say are true and you do what you say you’re going to do the vast majority of the time, you build a reputation for having integrity.
Before we can even begin to think about inclusion we have to talk about bias and exclusion.
Have glorious Easter Sunday!
A growing number of Americans are horrified by the recent spate of violent events related to race over the last few years. To me it’s like a watching a bad reality show entitled, “America in Retrograde.” If only the state of our union was just a TV show, I imagine lots of viewers would be scrambling for their remotes.
After enduring battle fatigue and failed efforts at getting my way, the last and most important precursor to accepting a new way of handling the challenges I faced was opening my mind to the notion that such a thing even existed. I needed something larger than my problems and more capable than myself at arriving at the right solutions. This is where my faith entered the picture.
