Hollie Steele is a 10 year-old singer who got a second chance. Consider that Britain's Got Talent builds its ratings by dashing dreams on live TV and her second chance seems downright miraculous. Why did she get a second chance? Because she made an understandable mistake, was surprisingly remarkable, and those with the power to give her a second chance stood to lose something by refusing her request. So why won't we (your clients, superiors, and social contacts) give you…
Despite our many flaws, America represents the great human experiment in pluralism. We think differently. We worship differently. We date differently. But none of that matters next to our united belief that all human beings are born with certain inalienable rights.
I love Walt Disney. There, I said it.
If there’s one thing all humans know from the moment we emerge from the womb, it’s that Love is good.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the…
Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist.” Children. What a pain in the ass. They know nothing of the pressures of being grown up. They just come and go as they please, experiencing the world through tiny pink glasses that don’t concern them with paying bills, voting for leaders or negotiating business deals. They’re lucky. And they know it. Or, at least my kids do. Last week we had a…
