Category: Deep Thoughts

Happy 4th Anniversary to Deep Something »

It’s hard to believe, but Deep Something debuted on May 24, 2004. I can’t believe I’ve maintained this blog for that long. Lot’s of blogs out there have been abandoned over the years. Here’s to the last four years of blogging on Deep Something, here’s to the unbelievable team of developers and the open source community that make WordPress and unbelievable software platform, and here’s to four more years of raising hell.

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Hunger In America »

I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.

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The Defeat of Night by Sunrise »

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. –Bern Williams

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Your Legacy? »

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known. –Hugh Prather

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Seek help first for a friend. »

A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first. –The Talmud

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Use it or lose it. »

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. –Eleanor Roosevelt

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Never Lose A Holy Curiosity »

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. –Albert Einstein

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The Mysterious, Source of All True Art and Science »

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. –Albert Einstein

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A Heart Full of Grace »

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. –Martin Luther King Jr.

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Never Haste to Day’s End »

One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime. –Dale Coleman

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The Journey Matters »

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. –Ursula K. LeGuin

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We Must Sail »

I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving; To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it–but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. –Oliver Wendell Holmes

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