When I consider what the Far East has offered our world, it breaks my heart to see people exercise such cruelty to Asians. The Asian community is a group of people that are often overlooked in this country. Although they make up a considerable portion of the world’s population, you wouldn’t know it based on … Continue reading Confucius And Wisdom Of The Far East by William Klein →

Contemplative life is open to all. Application of contemplative principles plus moral behavior equals the sum total of being. In the old days people thought this equation was understood and only open to religious. Thomas Merton was chastised for teaching the sacred geometry of being to the everyday churchgoer. He taught us the basic math … Continue reading The Sum Total Of Being by William Klein →

Guys are crazy about fantasy league drafts. There is prepping, studying, running through the rank-and-file players with sixth sense intuition of needs to acquiring players who can get as many points as possible for any given league. It’s a great escape, true. It inspires the mind to wonder and consider “What if” situations, if they’d … Continue reading Fantasy League Relationships by William Klein →

Sometimes we need to be reminded that there are unbearable situations out there that need to vanquished.  We can do our part.  We can stop judging others and pointing to the people who need assistance and stop calling them cheats.  We can exercise compassion and listen more and stop casting such aspersions. Famed psychologist Abraham Maslow stated in … Continue reading Arming Ourselves For The Day by William Klein →

It’s that time of year in school where students are getting short with teachers and vice versa. I’ve been patient, but it’s always good to let your emotions out and own your feelings. Therefore, I’m venting. Random Ramblings on things that irk me: You don’t need an IQ test to see if you’re smart.  Just go … Continue reading Think Silly, Be Silly by William Klein →

“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neal Hurston has a passage that gives the book its title.  Janie, her husband Tea Cake and his friend Motorboat are trying to outrun a storm.  The raging waters of the lake are rising and the tremulous fear of death has climbed into their skin.   She writes: “The wind came … Continue reading Reveling in Life by William Klein →

Can a person function in this world without being a hypocrite? Thomas Merton says, “We never see the one truth that would help us begin to solve our ethical and political problems: that we are all more or less wrong, that we are all at fault, all limited and obstructed by our mixed motives, our … Continue reading Hypocrisy by William Klein →

Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking” is a masterpiece in the canon of grief literature. It details the death of her husband and the grieving process.  Her husband, John Dunne, died unexpectedly of a heart attack a day before New Year’s Eve, 2003.   Didion mentions an experience in the grieving process that many can identify … Continue reading The Magic Spiral by William Klein →

We can never underestimate the healing power of art. Great art stays with you. Great art manifests the presence of possibility and a dalliance with a holy spirit; an immortal dance of death with the beholder’s imagination that invites us to participate in life’s sacred movement.  In a letter to Martha Graham, Agnes deMille writes … Continue reading A Shawoman At The Capitol by William Klein →

Tumultuous times create visionary leaders. I will be curious to see how great leaders emerge from these times. They are out there. There are many similarities of what’s happening today to the 60s.  Great leaders emerged like Martin Luther King, Jr., Ceasar Chavez and the Kennedys.  Like the 60s, race relations are problematic and people of … Continue reading What Would MLK Say Now? by William Klein →