Just like the bird and squirrel in the pictures in this post, humans can be fence sitters. We try to figure out which side of the fence is best for us. To difference makers, there is no best side, there is only the side of activity, the side of action for people. The difference maker knows people [...]
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Abraham Lincoln said, “The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
Lincoln’s statement [...]
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It snowed in Columbus today. The temperature made it all the way to 16 degrees (F). Spring is more than 50 days in the future. Are you like me? Do you wait for spring with the same expectation as a child waits for Santa. I wait for the feel of the warm sun on my [...]
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Barak Obama became the 44th President of the United States today. For many, his inauguration is a symbol of hope and joy. It is symbolic of hope in that President Obama expresses confidence in the American people to transcend differences to overcome the difficulty of the moment and achieve lofty goals. It becomes symbolic of [...]
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January 19, 2009, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! A national holiday in the U.S. We celebrate Dr. King as an American hero, a leader and symbol of the American Civil Rights movement. Dr. King left a legacy of the power of non-violent action. Dr. King was not concerned with power over, he was concerned with [...]
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The U.S. witnessed a miracle this past week when all passengers and crew of an air flight survived a crash landing in the Hudson River. Perhaps there was more than one miracle. Dig a little deeper and consider the orderly way the passengers cooperated during the evacuation. Consider how the passengers cared for each other. [...]
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It snowed all day in Columbus, Ohio. It is 8:20 p.m. and it is still snowing. The weather forecast is for a high of 7 degrees tomorrow with wind chills well below zero.
Difference makers experience days like this in their lives. Difference makers don’t complain or resist the winter, snow, cold, and biting wind chill. [...]
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