Daily Signet

We do not reveal ourselves in comfort and ease, in safety or security, nor in affluence, nor in our bliss, but in our crises. Toynbee said it was challenge—appropriate response to challenge—that raises civilizations, but never comfort or affluence….It is only by our deaths—or the threat of death—that we overcome our ego-self. And it is only when we overcome that ego-self that we discover that we are alive.
William M. Boast

On This Day…

Jack Kerouac born 1922 in Lowell, Mass., died 1969: writer and one of the original beat poets
Works: OnThe Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur
Quotes: “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” “Walking on water wasn’t built in a day.”