WORDS They can make you laugh, or make you cry. Engage or enrage. Bring joy, bring sorrow. They can herald new life, memorialize lives gone, inspire great acts of heroism – or despicable acts of evil. They can transport you … to other worlds, other times, other places. WORDS Surely ..
The term “Shoot the Donkey” refers to a classic scene in the movie “Patton” (based upon a true life event) where the Third Army gets critically held up in battle on a bridge, by a cart-pulling donkey that had stopped and refused to budge, totally blocking the bridge. Life and death are ..
Photo courtesy of Frédéric Harper I’ve had the good fortune to interview and work with many great storytellers over the last few years. J.D. Meier, program manager for Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices team, and author of the “Sources of Insight” blog, asked me what the most ..
In a previous article titled “An Inconvenient Genius: the Timeless Legacy of an Untimely Man,” with author Marc Seifer, a stark contrast was drawn between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. In general, Edison was able to take the ideas of others and construct the first practical machines. ..
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.” “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon 70 YEARS AGO TODAY AN EVIL BEAST WITH A SILVER TONGUE … … ..