Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

Paper

A Forest Clearing**, from **_In Darkest Africa_ by H.M. Stanley, published 1890. Wandering Musings on Meaning Creating a legacy is important to me — I would go as far as to say that creating meaningful things is my highest priority in life. It’s...

The Art of Losing

The loss of a lonely man never makes much of a sound. | Source How lucky it is — to not be victorious. The Door Closes There’s an old saying that when one door closes, another opens. It’s an eye-roller — an idiom that people scoff...

Happiness

Untitled | Source — And Getting There Often, I find myself wondering about the secret to happiness. Plato asserted that only those that live morally virtuous lives were ones that were happy. Aristotle wrote that happiness — human progression — was the only thing that could...

Resolutions for 2017

Fireworks | Source 17 Changes that I’m Making Around a year ago, I wrote my first real post on Medium. Coincidentally, it was also about New Year’s Resolutions: https://wandernotebook.com/the-best-time-to-start-a-new-year-s-resolution-is-right-now-ffdd389fbf01 The essential message that I was trying to make was that you don’t...