Not Choosing Is Choosing

Not every choice results in action.  Sometimes, choosing means passing the opportunity by.

~I’ve let jobs pass me by.

~I’ve let food choices pass me by.

~I’ve let books and movies pass me by.

And I’ve lived to tell about it.

Just because something is offered doesn’t mean you should take a bite.

I saw my old baseball coach recently.  He taught me the beginnings of this a long time ago, only he said it another way.  Billy said – “Don’t swing at every pitch.”

I’ve never forgotten that and I still adhere to it.

That is all I have to say for today.

P Michael Biggs

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The Power to Imagine Better

If we’re going to use our imaginations, then perhaps we should imagine better.  Mankind’s mind is an amazingly powerful creation.  Look at all we have done, especially in the last thirty years: computers in our pockets, smart phones, tracking devices, electric cars, medical miracles and a thousand more.

And yet, there is more to be done, more imaginings that will transpire over the next ten years.  It boggles the mind. 

And are we better for it all?  Have we imagined better ways of engaging with the human beings around us?  We can send men and women into space, build space stations and populate them with scientist and astronauts from other parts of the globe and they can get along cooperatively for months at a time, yet I can vote for someone different from my long-time friend and get slammed for “uninformed thinking” and “you must be a nut-bag to follow that man or woman.”

Perhaps it is time to begin putting our grand imaginations to work on the human relationship condition.  We are better than a lot of what I see on social media.  We don’t attack just because of different opinions.  We don’t condemn and ‘send to hell’ everyone on the opposite side of our stance on any given topic. 

We have it in our power to imagine better.  We can work these issues to a better solution.  And either we do, or we go deeper into the divide of our world.  And what is it that Abraham Lincoln said? 

That fits us today.

With today’s technological advances and smart people in our land, we have to change the wording on this a bit.  You know where I’m going –

A WORLD divided 

against itself 

cannot stand.”

Men and women in government, whether city, county, state, US or foreign kingdoms, we need your best imaginations. 

We need your best statesmanship, your best integrity, your best unbiased thinking.  We can no longer afford political posturing, positional thinking, and party-line loyalties.  The party has now become mankind.  We the people, all of us, red, black, white, brown, Asian, Russian, Tennesseans, Afrikaners, Ethiopians, and all the rest of us … we are the party.  We are the ones who matter.  We all suffer at the hand of wrong thinking, and we all gain when we manage to imagine better.

I’ll let J K Rowling sum up these thoughts.  They are taken from her speech to the graduating class at Harvard, September 15, 2011.

“We do not need magic 

to transform our world.

We carry all the power 

we need inside 

ourselves already.

We have the power 

to imagine better.” 

– JK Rowling

Ladies and gentlemen … Start your imaginations!

P Michael Biggs

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Danger Is a Lousy Reason to Stop

"The freeways are dangerous.  I have twelve miles to drive to work.  I think I should quit."

"I tried ice skating once.  It was dangerous.  I fell and could have seriously hurt myself.  Dangers lurked everywhere on the ice." 

"I want to open my new business, but I might go bankrupt.  And employees might steal from me, and I might get sued, and I might fail, and I might …"

Yes indeed.  Dangers lurk everywhere. 

And so do the possibilities of accomplishment.  Notice I used the word “accomplishment”. 

You and I just might make some progress in the face of dangerous “things” out there. 

There lie our marching orders.  We do the “thing” because our thirst for accomplishment overrides our fear of failure and danger.

This is an important picture.  Rest your eyes on it.

The fishermen know 

that the sea is dangerous 

and the storm terrible, 

but they have never found 

these dangers sufficient reason 

for remaining ashore.

Vincent Van Gogh

P Michael Biggs

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