Groucho Marks

 

Did you ever know that Peter O'Toole had a double-phallic name?

Groucho Marks

Chuck Britt

 

Competition is often a distraction from development... realizing and actualizing more of my own capacity is the very next priority choice for each of us.  Competition demands that I focus comparatively.  Development usually requires an intense internal focus.  Personal development involves building individual self-care skills leading to less impulsive, less manipulative and less competitive social skills. 

Chuck Britt

Janet Erskine Stuart

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

Janet Erskine Stuart

William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley and Nelson Mandela

INVICTUS "undefeated"
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

By the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).

While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.

Don Taves

Remembering  Don Taves:

Dr. Taves was our Clinical Supervisor and Consulting Psychiatrist at Catholic Community Services in Mount Vernon in 1989 / 1991 while I was there.  He, along with the other professionals around that weekly consultation table, taught me the power of co-respectful teamwork and consensus building.  We learned not to waste any team member's feelings.  If we wanted an intervention to work we needed to find a way to integrate each participant's feelings into the plan.

Chuck Britt