Tales to Inform, Inspire, and Motivate
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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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 …
This week, a year after Trump and the Republicans trounced the Democrats, the Dems bounced back. On Election Day 2017, a large number of seats up for grabs flipped from Red to Blue. Now, this post isn’t here to rah-rah about this turn of events. For a good summary of the highlights of who won …
When your home is invaded, your country destroyed, your town, village, or city occupied, it takes heroic courage and herculean effort to resist, to fight back. To protect your loved ones, your friends, your way of life. You’d imagine either a plucky band of rebels or a diehard group of fighters. Or sometimes, all you …
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Today’s Tale of Awesomeness is actually a series of five smaller tales. They are all from the stories of Nasruddin or Nasreddin Hodja. Who? The real Nasruddin was a Seljuk Turk, a witty and satirical Sufi who was full of stories and used anecdotes to teach his words of wisdom. If you’re not from the …
109 years ago today, the world changed. In the fall of 1908, the world’s first “automobile for the masses” rolled off the assembly lines ready for the public. The Ford Motor Company’s Model-T debuted to the world. And it went on to radically change, for good or ill, not just the way humanity went from …