Tales to Inform, Inspire, and Motivate
Kieun 
As I write this post, there are multiple protests going on across the country for police reform and redress to social injustices to the lives Africa-Americans. Black Lives Matter has become a movement that’s taken on urgent energy and its themes and goals have made the whole world take notice. A couple of years ago …
Martin Luther King Jr said that the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice. I have faith that he is right, but that arc is sometimes very long and goes in convoluted paths. Take for instance, the story of school desegregation. From the standard American History textbooks you’d learn that Brown …
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If you’re a car enthusiast, its sleek style, history, and distinctive logo will quicken your pulse and jump start your interest. It’s the 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 350/500 Cobra. Now, I am not a gearhead nor do I even pretend to know anything about cars beyond how to fill it up with gas and drive …
A quick follow-up. It looks like Black Panther himself will play the title role of Yasuke, who I wrote about in a previous article. The story of the first and only black samurai is going to be made into a movie and Chadwick Boseman. No release date yet, or any other casting information beyond Boseman. …
The following is a Tale that I heard from one of my martial arts instructors many moons ago when I was just a Padawan. I later read a version of it in a book called Myths and Legends of The Martial Arts by Peter Lewis. And much later on I read a couple of other …
Physics is hard. I should know, I was an applied physics major in college and got my butt kicked by quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. And dancing is hard. I should also know. I took a ballroom dancing class for 6 months and salsa dancing for another 6 months, and my wife still says I dance …
This past weekend, I cleaned the house, fixed a hole in my fence, and wrote the 1st draft of three posts for this website. I was feeling pretty good about myself and feeling quite accomplished…and then I read about Jonny Kim. That’s DOCTOR Jonny Kim, a former Navy SEAL. Oh, and did I mention he’s …