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Milestones & Commemorations… This week there have been two of them for our country – the end of the combat mission in Iraq and the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. On Sunday, I heard the president’s speech about Katrina. This Tuesday evening, he will be addressing the nation on Iraq. The videos below remind us that it is good for us to acknowledge that despite the fact there still remains much more to do in Iraq, Louisiana and Mississippi, a great deal has been accomplished.

James Carville, a CNN contributor and resident of New Orleans stated that it wasn’t a 50/50 accomplishment, but more like a 75/25 accomplishment with 75 being how far we have come in the five years since the disaster. Of the high in USA troops of 140,000 in Iraq, we have brought 90,000 home and the remaining 50,000 are primarily in a support and training role with combat action only if attacked.

So while neither of these warrants celebration, it is good for us as a nation to acknowledge that over time, with planning, funding, action and resolve, we Americans can solve problems and make things better. A good part of patriotism is being proud of the accomplishments of our nation. Let’s take just a little time to do that, temporarily setting aside our strong personal opinions of what we think wasn’t righ,t and could have been better or different, to acknowledge that with the incredible commitment and sacrifice of our troops and the people who have dedicated themselves to restoring the Gulf region, things have changed for the better. The President’s videos on Iraq and Katrina are shown below.

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Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm was an internationally renowned social psychologist and humanistic philosopher. While his early life was in Germany, eventually earning a degree in sociology. He then studied psychoanalysis and started a private practice. He emigrated to Geneva, Switzerland and then to New York City for a professorship at Columbia University. His most famous book is ‘The Art of Loving.’ Here are some insightful quotes from Fromm.

“As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask”.

“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

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Like Thoreau, it may be that our bigger regrets have to do with living life too conservatively.

“If I repent of anything it is very likely to be my good behavior.”

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset’s focus for riding life’s many edges…

“Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.”

- Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955)

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Ellen Goodman’s syndicated columns, about the human side of the news, appear in over 375 newspapers...

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”

- Ellen Goodman

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From an early supporter of Darwin’s theory on evolution and the man who first declared that birds evolved from dinosaurs...

"I'm too much a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”

- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)

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Service To Others

"The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on the earth."

- Sir Wilfred Grenfel

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A Wisdom Quote from Ken Kesey

Note: While this quotation by Ken Kesey, a modern thinker who was very influential in the 1960’s – the 1970’s, is overtly about the environment, it has a great deal to offer for many aspects of our lives, such as in relationships, advise and stress management.

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

- Ken Kesey

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