I’m not a huge basketball fan, but I’m a big fan of teamwork–and I like poetry. And no team in recent memory demonstrates the sheer poetry of selfless, purposeful teamwork like the current NBA champs. Every once in a while,… Read More »Teamwork and the Spurs
T.S. Eliot’s amazing and confounding poem, The Hollow Men, contains the following words: Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Heather Van Aelst says this in her analysis of the The Hollow Men: “This… Read More »The Shadow Falls
I love poetry. On a couple other occasions I’ve posted poetry on this blog (here and here). I’ve even posted some of my own poetry (here and here). Presenting language in the form of poetry causes us to consider it… Read More »The now on which the shadow stands
This poem has a lot of relevance for being published in 1895. Despite it’s popularity, though, I don’t know how much attention has been given to the fact that it seems to be a father speaking to his son. It… Read More »Gaining inspiration for parenting and leadership from Kipling
People take work People require time Our hearts bear (Self-inflicted) wounds Our minds transfixed With crime How can we speak Of freedom When we aren’t ready To let go? Of commitment When all we do is go? To hold a… Read More »“People II” – A Poem
People aren’t commodities Simply filling spaces People aren’t “unsolved” People aren’t cases People aren’t numbers People have faces People have hearts Fears And dreams They contain traces Of the Image of Almighty God Shattered, hidden In secret places Forgotten and… Read More »“People” – A Poem
T.S. Eliot’s amazing and confounding poem, The Hollow Men, contains the following words: Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Heather Van Aelst says this in her analysis of the work “This… Read More »LEADERSHIP WEDNESDAY: The Shadow Falls