In Graham Greene’s novel, The Heart of the Matter, one of the main themes is that you can never really know another person. We can guess at who they are. We can judge them by their behavior or the words they speak, but unless we are them, we can’t know them exactly as they [...]
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Coach ClayThis blog is where I write out loud about the things I’ve been thinking, seeing, hearing and reading. You can think of it as a sort of first draft of what is currently percolating through my mind. I am a writer, speaker, and coach; former U.S. Army Infantry Officer, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point.
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My wife thinks I’m crazy. My friends shake their heads in bewilderment. Even the cats look at me funny. Why? Because I get up in the morning between 4:00 – 4:30am each day apart from the weekends when I generally get up between 5:30 – 6:00am. Getting up at such a crazy hour for me [...] I am in a hotel room in London. I’m on the 9th floor with a fantastic view of the city lights. The London Eye is visible off to the right. A full moon hangs low in the sky competing against the multitude of lights that make up the London city skyline. I am down here [...] I have a set of Charity Paintball Tickets, worth £49.99, to give away. How to win: 1. Subscribe to my blog by email or RSS (use the link of your choice to the right) Cafe Dialogues, 28 January 2010, 7PM, the Rhubarb I want to bring philosophy back to the people. To echo the words of Henry David Thoreau, I think that nowadays there are professors of philosophy, but not enough philosophers. To be a philosopher is simply to love wisdom, not to just have subtle thoughts or [...] |
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