Character ...

The strength of a character is not measured by words. It's measured by actions. By what we choose to do and not do. By how we deal with the consequences of our choices. Words are easy to come by. A life of consequence not so.


mcr

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A safe place ...? (2)

Safety can't be coerced, bought nor begged. You might think otherwise when  we find so many efforts from external  sources to proclaim they work for  our safety. When there are so many ads about how to buy the best security system. And when you see so many abdicating their responsibility for their own safety. And it is this last point the most important one. Safety is an individual responsibility.  No matter what anyone does, how good a safety system is, how many weapons surround us, is up to us individually to keep ourselves safe.  When we abdicate this responsibility by not taking care of our health and property, not screening our surroundings, not practicing common sense in our choices and acting carelessly and in a reckless manner the consequences will follow and we'll have to share the responsibility of those actions or in-actions.   It's so easy to play the blame game. To assume the victim posture. Isn't it  more courageous to ...
Read more

Valley Forge Aikido Seminar starts today ...

Image
Dojo will be closed this weekend. We'll be training in Valley Forge Training Center . Andrew Sato Shihan will be teaching. It's important for us to attend because along the way to a shodan this is part of our test requirements and we'll do a great dis-service to our training not to participate when the time is due. We'll talk more about this when we come back.  For now, we are looking forward to meeting old and new friends and to train in this marvelous martial art! mcr
Read more