Where Lightning Strikes – updated 2018

by | Jun 8, 2010 | Horace | 0 comments

So, you should avoid the mountaintop obviously.  Or maybe not.  The real mountaintop in a thunderstorm, good idea to avoid. However, the metaphorical mountaintop of life … there you want to be when the lightning strikes.  Creative, intellectual, social and entrepreneurial  bolts of lightning find you when you have hiked out from your cave, when you are taking risks, climbing, searching, looking, exploring.  That sort of lightning doesn’t come easily into a closed home, heart and mind.  

If you are afraid of life, of pain, of hurt, of effort, of pushing, of conflict, of friction, then you will avoid all that.  And as a result you will also avoid the brilliance of lightning in your life.

Get out of the shell that is your refuge, go get struck by lightning.  If nothing else you will have fun in the rain.

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

“It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.” – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 65BCE – 7BCE, Roman poet

Your Own Property – updated 2017

by | Jan 4, 2010 | Horace | 1 comment

Fighting someone else’s fire is good, but it is always important to remember that self-preservation is not a sin.

It does you no good to ignore your own home (relationship, family, job, etc.) while trying to save someone else’s. Doing both is the trapeze act we all have as part of a community of caring people. But, if the choice must be made, I think it is better to take the chance of damage to our own property than to not care for others in danger.

My frozen winter weather reporter, inspired by SP, is a bow to all our intrepid journalists who go out on frozen days like this to tell us stories we need to hear. Thank you!

Drawing and commentary © Marty Coleman

“Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire.” – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) , 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Roman Poet