To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Sep 29, 2020 10:28:10 AM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
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September Laugh
Aug 30, 2020 10:16:04 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
We’ll Make It Through by Ray LaMontagne
Aug 30, 2020 10:06:56 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels
Aug 30, 2020 9:48:36 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
Editor’s note: Thanks to friend, Frank Dixon, for turning me onto Giffels, a local (Akron) professor and writer. Don’t let the theme of building his own coffin (yes, that’s the story) throw you off. Rather than morbid this book is filled with wisdom, warmth and laughter. It is quite more about living than dying. Whether the cause is the author’s writing or my comprehension, the book started to really delight and engage me more after page 148, when at least a half dozen times I would stop, say “wow” and reread the paragraph or section.
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Aug 1, 2020 12:08:31 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
Louis L'Amour
Jul 28, 2020 10:52:48 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.”
The 2,000 Year Old Man
Jul 27, 2020 7:02:25 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
Business Adventures by John Brooks
Jun 30, 2020 9:36:51 PM / by Tim McCarthy posted in Creativity & Favorites
Editor’s note: I’ve read ten books on business and philanthropy over the least few months. None were worth sharing so I’ve been stuck on historical fiction but now it’s back to business. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s recommended it so I tried it. It was first published in the late 1960s so it took me a while to adjust to style and numbers and policies from the mid-20th century. Who remembers “Cornering” or the flash crash of 1962? As I adjusted, I realized that is what must have appealed to my business heroes. That in business, as in life, that never changes is that no matter the numbers, practices and policies, we are emotional and irrational beings.