touchstone quotations: Myles Eckert on Honor

Monday, March 3, 2014

Myles Eckert on Honor

Dear Soldier, my dad was a soldier. He’s in heaven now. I found this $20 in the parking lot when we got here. We like to pay it forward in my family. It’s your lucky day! Thank you for your service. Myles Eckert, a gold star kid.

Myles Eckert


This photograph was taken by Miles' Mom, Tiffany Eckert.

Myles is an 8-year-old whose father, Army Sergeant Gary "Andy" Eckert, was killed in Iraq in 2005, when Myles was 5-weeks-old. Myles found a $20 bill in the parking lot of a Toledo, Ohio Cracker Barrel and decided to pay it forward to another soldier to honor his Dad.

Thank you, to Miles' Mom for helping him to know his Dad and to be such an incredible person.

To learn more about Myles act of kindness, click here to see Steve Hartman's On the Road installment for CBS News.

To see Steve Hartman's follow-up that aired March 28, 2014, click here.

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013