There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
Eric ZornThis sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first childโฆ.
Eric ZornI don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.
Eric ZornFear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If youโre not failing from time to time, youโre not pushing yourself. And if youโre not pushing yourself, youโre coasting.
Eric ZornI think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.
Eric ZornDon't waste your breath proclaiming what's really important to you. How you spend your time says it all.
Eric Zorn