by Benard Makaa | Jun 4, 2018 | What I have learned
“Whatever scares you, go do it!” She was quite beautiful and well composed. I was deeply attracted to her, & wanted to ask her out. But I was scared. Scared to death that she will say no. But I asked and she said yes. And we had a whole...
by Benard Makaa | May 22, 2018 | Poems
Again, Love came to visit me, Bold as a Lion, and finding me coy, She beckoned to stay, The search was now at bay. We met in nature, Away from preying eyes, That is where I caught her eye. It was her lovely grin, her broad smile, Knowingly, I smiled...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 12, 2018 | Culture, Stories
See if you can connect the dots in this puzzle with four straight lines without taking your pen (or cursor) off the paper. The rules to solve this puzzle are very simple. You must draw four straight lines and connect all the points without taking your pen (or cursor)...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 11, 2018 | Stories
Every time I watch this movie, I get a chill in my spine. Here is why, I, like most other ambitious, uptight men tend to put a lid to our emotions. How many potential relationships have I sabotaged by such pretense? We eventually lose out. Here is a story of a butler...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2018 | Birthday, Stories
“Father of light and life, though Good Supreme! O teach me what is good, teach me Yourself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!” I am...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 21, 2018 | Culture, Health, Psychology
I used to wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Does she really like me?” Every single morning, evening, she was all I could think of. I thought I was made for her and her for me. We were a rare, unique, perfect fit. Or maybe I read too much into...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 31, 2018 | Books, Culture
This is a distillation or rather excerpts of Ernest Becker’s Thoughts on Heroism, from the book “Denial of Death”. Download the book here. Becker suggests that the problem of heroics is the central one of human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than anything...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 22, 2018 | Culture, Philosophy, Psychology
The post’s title is taken from Jonathan Swift’s poem in “Cassinus and Peter”; where he laments the simultaneity of the sublime and the scatological in Caelia’s person in “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” in which two characters, Strephon and Betty, take a “strict...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 18, 2018 | Books
I will keep updating the 2018 list as the year progresses on. For the 2017 list,find it here. For the 2016 list, find it here. For the 2015 list, find it here. 1.The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker 2.How To Get Consulting Clients Fast by Frank Kern 3.Convert by...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 7, 2018 | Letters
FROM John Graham, at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, care of The Hoosier Grocery Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Pierrepont’s orders have been looking up, so the old man gives him a pat on the back—but not too hard a one. Chicago, May 10,...
