Max Living

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne’er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.
—Thomas Moore, “Oh That I Had Wings”
How do fly above “all low delay”? How do you avoid “idle [...]

By Mark Brown
One of our recent blog posts asked “what is your recipe for success?” If success is a recipe, then it may also be true that constantly repeating that recipe will lead to stale leftovers. As we pointed out in that post, once you master the basics of the recipe, it’s time to “improvise [...]

Ben Comen and Living without Limits
Ben Comen has cerebral palsy. Ben Comen ran for his high school’s cross country team. Those two statements usually don’t go together.
Perhaps one definition of character is not relying on excuses when excuses are readily available to us. Ben wanted to be part of a team, and paid the price [...]

On Sunday, The King’s Speech won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This film tells the story of England’s King George VI and his efforts to overcome a severe stutter, which greatly impacted his life as a public figure.
As shown in the film, even before he was made King, George VI (or “Bertie” to his [...]

Benjamin Franklin is famous for saying that the only certainties in life were death and taxes. True as that may be, work and toil are additional certainties for most of the human family. For our own maintenance, and those who depend on us, work in one form or another is nearly inescapable.
There are also things [...]