During my graduate studies several years ago, I spent a summer studying philosophy at a Benedictine monastery. In the foyer of one of their administration buildings, the monks had a mini-library of assorted magazines on various topics and categories of life. One afternoon I took a break from my studies, went down to the lobby to flip through and read some of the periodicals. One was an Ecology magazine. There was a quote from an article in that magazine that has stayed with me all these years. I do not remember the title nor the author of the article but the quote goes something like this: [Read more…] about Nature, the Forest and Three Types of People in the World
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Charging into the fray: The Kentucky Derby
Charging into the fray – The Kentucky Derby….
More than three thousand years ago a man named Job complained to God about all his troubles and the Bible tells us that God answered. Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paused fiercely, rejoicing in his strength and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing. He does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground. He cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
-Penny Chenery
From the movie, Secretariat (2010)
Eating up the ground…..
The trumpet sounds this week for The Kentucky Derby 143. Here’s to the fastest two minutes in sports!
May you laugh at fear and charge into the fray of life this week.
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