Power corrupts. Arrogance creates more enemies than friends. Those who don’t learn from their mistakes are destined to repeat them.

Samantha Power is a solemnly intense, and deeply passionate humanitarian-focused diplomat. Power has an incredible story, leaving Ireland at the age of nine to immigrate to the U.S. where she became a citizen at the age of 23. Her memoir The Education Of An Idealist is filled with honest reflections and insight into the inner…

If you create something that others are glad they consumed, that’s success. And if you create something that only you are grateful for creating, that’s success too. It all rests upon how you define success.

Inconvenience, delay, hardship all illuminate what gifts, convenience, and good fortune we’ve benefited from prior. Grateful for the occasional stripping away of the assumed. It’s that time of year when the humbling of the winter cold is felt.

In one hand there’s reality, and in another what’s being dwelled upon. On occasions best kept apart, and others magical together. The beast of focus is a tricky one to train.