January 2011
4 posts
“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest and hold your head up high above the...”
– From Robert Fagles’ translation of the Iliad, Achilles’ father Peleus says to his son leaving for war
Twenty-Eight Years Later
Today is the day I turn 28. I remembered last year, on this very day, after a night out with a friend, I woke up and the world seemed to stop a bit and speak to me through advertising, news periodicals and shop crazes that she was hurting and sought self destruction. What a way to wake up 27 years later. Now it’s 28 years later and it seems the world hasn’t changed much, but I on the...
“If you can, find that peace within yourself, that peace and quiet and confidence...”
– Major Richard “Dick” Winters