{"id":554,"date":"2011-08-24T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T02:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2011-08-24T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T03:13:40","slug":"all-things-shall-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/all-things-shall-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"All Things Shall Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been quite a time since the last post. Spring and Summer have been a rich and transitional time. Today I read with sadness the word of Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple’s CEO. I’m not a techie by any stretch. But I’ve admired this man’s innovation and impact on our culture. I love my iPhone.\u00a0 I have joked for the last couple of years that if I had to give up my family or my iPhone……well, I’d be weighing the options.\u00a0\u00a0 Such cleverness.\u00a0 Such usefullness.\u00a0 The drive behind that creativity is falling to his physical limitations.\u00a0 We are all dust, after all.\u00a0 I, as we all, embrace the fiction that we…. WE…. are special in some way.\u00a0\u00a0 We will live long and healthy.\u00a0 If we have not achieved our dream, we have time yet for that.\u00a0 If we have achieved our desires at the various stages of our lives, we feel blessed.\u00a0 Somehow God touches us.\u00a0 We don’t know why or how but it is our abiding knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who among us would be more blessed than Steve Jobs?\u00a0 But today, he succumbs to illness of the body.\u00a0 Steve Jobs, whose mind is so beautiful as a creative engine, which touches us all – whose body is so mortal. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When I was a kid, I loved the giants of Folk Music.\u00a0 I’m going to date myself here, but I loved The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary.\u00a0 The power and DRIVE of their music inspired and empowered me.\u00a0 In the last few years, Nick Reynolds of TKT and Mary Travers of PP&M died.\u00a0 Here are pictures of each at the height of their power and in age and infermity.<\/p>\n

Mary: \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 Here’s Nick: \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>r’<\/p>\n

The people whose passion and life force energy can inspire and touch us are gifts.\u00a0 Be they Steve , or Mary or Nick (as they do me) or Barack Obama, \u00a0Rick Perry, Bruce Springsteen, \u00a0Lady Gaga, or any writer, singer, innovator, crier, screamer, tickler, we all pass through these stages.\u00a0 Our task is to love ourselves and one another as we pass through this universal course.\u00a0 None of us gets out of this alive, but we can strive, always, to find the love and passion that makes us alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been quite a time since the last post. Spring and Summer have been a rich and transitional time. Today I read with sadness the word of Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple’s CEO. I’m not a techie by any stretch. But I’ve admired this man’s innovation and impact on our culture. I love my Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}