Passionate Purposefulness

Excellent meeting of M5 last night. Shared my theory of Passionate Purposefulness... and was shown that it needed further development. The third dimension is self --> others. A potentially profound life model is developing. Excellent insights by group.

Also had opportunity to share about influence, and the impact my grandmother had on my life. Read 3 of her poems, including 'Life', which they all wanted a copy of after.
December 2, 1997

Here is the poem Life which I shared that evening ten years ago, followed by a link to the dedication page I created in my grandmother's memory.

Life
If you, in your way of life
Have ever been a stranger

To the dread scarred face,

And frightening ways of danger,

Then the safety you possess

Is hard to realize.

Until some danger threatens you

You blindly close your eyes.

If failure never came to you
Success can have no savor.

Your love must know some hate

Or it can have no flavor!

If sorrow never choked our throats

Or teardrops dimmed our eye

The dizzying heights of happiness

Are lost and gone awry!

He who reads diligently

And after truth has sought
And has truly never doubted

Has as truly never thought!

So use your doubts and sorrows

Like a springboard from the sky,

The lower down they take you

The higher up you fly!

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