My daughter Sami reminded me of this on Facebook today: “It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” Arnold Toynbee It got me to thinking [...]
Yes, I said “son and father” not “father and son”. In this empassioned blog post, Scott Allen shares something he got from his son. Scott refers to it as spreading the meme. I call Scott’s son a Lightbringer, and Scott a Lamplighter, offering each of us the chance to be a Lamplighter too. Thanks, Scott! [...]
Different readers have told me that they saw different things in this book. Here’s what it’s all about for me… First, there’s the spread of ideas. There are people who have a new idea and just go around talking about their idea. They don’t evangelize, per se, but just go around talking about it. They [...]
Since this book has been published in blog format, it displays the latest entry first. Of course, I don’t want you to read the end of the book before the beginning. So if you haven’t been reading along, let me suggest that you start here. Anywhere along the line, I’d love to hear from you [...]
That evening, he sat in his family’s home – much changed from the home he’d left – sharing glasses of fresh spring water, enjoying the company of Hank, the dog, and they told him their story. “After you left, life went on as it always had,” his father Horace told him. “I continued to cut [...]
The journey continued, and in each village they came to, Ham found more Lamplighters and Shadowpushers. He was hailed as the Lightbringer, and found himself accepting the name, even embracing it. The physical changes in the villages grew, with each village he came to. And each time he asked about the changes, the Lamplighters and [...]
“After a while,” Rod continued, “we decided to send messengers to the villagers nearby. We thought that with all you had taught us, and what we had taught the villagers of Rise, we should continue to share. So the messengers we sent were told to teach as much as they could, including the making and [...]
