Lessons

We can not always know who or what the teachers or lessons are. Some of what I learned early, still learning a half century later, a short and consequential list:

Courage, the rarest of qualities.

A hateful lie may live forever.

Rage is every man's Kryptonite.

Generosity can be swindled.

Reason, the refuge from chaos.

All have an unassailable core.

Age, a number; attitude, timeless.

Teachers and lessons come from both losses and gains, times of turmoil or calm, all unannounced, becoming the basis of experience. This daily instruction never ends.