Connect to the Dead Using Your Cell Phone
A new breed of headstones are on the market. They're called "Living Headstones" and they combine Facebook-like profile pages with traditional cemetery headstones.
As pictured above, the new stones allow passerbys to use their smart phones to scan the QR code embedded on the gravestone. The phone then takes the user to a website devoted to the deceased love one. This site features information, photos and family trees, and can collect ongoing comments about the person for years to come.
Social Norms: What are the right conditions for friendship?
What are the right conditions for friendship?
How come more people fall into "love at first sight" than stumble into "friendship" at first sight? If you hang out with a new friend, does it have to follow some sort of etiquette timeline (like the 3-day waiting period to call after a first date)?
How much do you have to have in common to make a close friendship work? Do you have to have similar personalities? The same hobbies? Backgrounds? Voting habits? Religious ideas?
How many months ...
The normal, everyday tragedy of losing friends.
The normal, everyday tragedy of losing friends.
Let's say you're carrying one of your many solid gold bars through the park in your backpack (because this sounds like you, right?). But when you get to your destination, you unzip your bag and find the gold slipped out through a hole in the bottom.
What do you do?
There's no question what you do, right?
You scramble. You go back. You hustle to look around everywhere. You hope to God you stumble across it and if you do, you pick it ...
Be Good Anyways: The Paradoxical Commandments
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ...
Plant Yourself At the Gates of Hope
Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of Hope - not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; nor the strident gates of self-righteousness ... nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of ‘Everything is gonna be all right,’ but a very different, sometimes very lonely place, the place of truth-telling, about your own soul first of all and its condition, the place of resistance and defiance, the piece of ground from ...