Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, learned to talk despite being deaf and blind.
Here she is with her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan. In this footage (from 1930) Sullivan shows the way how Helen Keller learned to talk.
via Smithsonian.
Kind of cool.
Thought this was worth sharing.
Now if I could just find the time to put this stuff into practice.
Tragedies often sound a clarion call that get people to band together and be their best selves.
But how long will the good behavior last? Like exercise or showers, while it is good to do ... it is better to repeat.
It is time to take an honest look at ourselves ... and take appropriate action.
The 3 minute video below highlights some tough issues. The hard truth is that progress starts with honesty.
Do you think this painted an accurate picture of the current United States?
Some things are harder than others ...
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
Urgent, please read ASAP.
That's what gets done, of course. The urgent.
Not the article you haven't gotten around to writing, the trip to the gym that will pay off in the long run, the planning for your upcoming birthday party, dinner with your parents (who would love to see you), ten minutes to sit quietly, saying thank you to a friend for no real reason... no, we do the urgent first.
The problem, of course, is that the queue of urgent never ends, it merely changes its volume as it gets longer.
Yes, we've heard it said that it's the important, not the urgent, that deserves attention. But it understates just how much we've been manipulated by those that would make their important into our urgent.
via Seth Godin.
We just finished the first quarter of 2013.
It's been three months since New Year's Eve, and most New Year's Resolutions have been forgotten. As you prepare to face the rest of 2013, ask yourself these powerful questions from Greg Bustin:
Now get going. It's not just the first day of a new Quarter ... it's the first day of the rest of your life.
What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances ... or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
Are you happy how you spend your day?
Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?
As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.
But what if you looked at it another way - what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.
That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.
"It's not the years in your life that count ... It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Are you giving time to the things you really care about?
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
You probably heard that Apple avoided $9.2 Billion in U.S. Taxes with its recent debt deal. Here is one way to try and fix that ...Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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