Soul Food: Week of October 15, 2023

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values …

Sunday: The careful & unbiased study of history, especially biographies, is a key to surviving let alone successfully navigating one’s own life through a beautiful yet always needy, challenging & dangerous world

Monday: Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

Tuesday: History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill

Wednesday: History is a set of lies agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

Thursday: We are not the makers of history, we are made by it. Martin Luther King

Friday: I like the dreams of the present more than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson

Saturday: We cannot escape history … [and] … will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. Abraham Lincoln

Davd Soul