The Measure Of A Man

Once again I have stumbled upon a great book...Not that it is the most entertaining but is was fun to see Sidney Poitier's insite to life, how he was brought up, and how he has made the most out of his time..no matter what way the dice roll. One area in the book pushed you to realize that comfort causes you to become complacent and that you always need to push your comfort level to progress in all aspects of life; be it intellectually, financially, or emotionally you need to press your comfort level. There was also a quote in the book that I remember my parents telling me as I grew up that you need to "prepare for the worst; hope for the best." Towards the end of the book there is a fear of his that he states and I know Molly and I have talked about this as we have thought about having children some day. It goes like this: "My fear is this: I fear that as we cover more of our planet with concrete and steel, as we wire our homes with more and more fiber-optic cables that take the place of more intimate interactions, as we give our children more and more stuff and less and less time, as we go further and further away from the kind of simplicity I knew as a child on Cat Island, our Earth-Gaia or not- will become for us the Wire Mother, and our souls will die as a result." Hope you enjoy the book if you are so inclined to check it out!