Vancouver Triathlon
Yesterday I raced in the Vancouver Triathlon in Stanley Park. This is the main race that keeps me training all year long. I look forward to the 1.5 km swim in the ocean, the 40 km bike ride through the Stanley Park roadways with no car traffic, and the 10 km run on the paths…
Continue readingMaslow and Human Happiness
A recent article in the Vancouver Sun (August 27, 2010) is causing debate about American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s famous “pyramid of needs.” Many of us have taken a psych course somewhere along the line that introduced us to Maslow’s pyramid of needs which has held sway since 1943. Maslow’s theory suggests that the search for…
Continue readingTill We Have Faces
I just finished re-reading Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. What an amazing book! It is hard to descibe what an effect this book has on a person but let me leave you with three quotes. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find…
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I had a dream last night that prompted me to think about the word “character.” More specifically, I have been thinking about “good character.” What does it mean to be a person of good character? In this dream I was asked for my opinion of a definition of character. The definition I was given was,…
Continue readingCertainty
Persuasive speech is very much in vogue. One person pronounces that they have the final answer on a subject and three others refute what has just been said and state that they have the truth on that subject. Politicians, philosophers, cosmologists, scientists, and theologians all tend to get caught up in the shouting. As a…
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