Greatness

Watching the Chicago Blackhawks, you get the sense that they are special team. Every game they have a great chance to win. If they are down in a contest you know they can come back and win. As a lifelong Chicagoan its rare we experience greatness of this magnitude. The '85 Bears and the Bulls' three peat repeat in the 90's immediately come to mind.

Greatness in any aspect of life is rare. I use sports analogies because I can't think of any food analogies that make sense. Mike Tallarico eating sour cream and chorizo burritos with his glasses off is a pretty special sight to behold, but thats not nationally televised and thus most people can't relate.

The dog days of Temperance are here and the internal/external envirnoment presents many obstacles. One can be lulled into a trance, fall off the ship and drown in an unforgiving ocean of monotonous existence. With our present surroundings in our periphery, we must stay focused on our goals, whatever they may be. Short term or long term its all the same - your destiny is not predetermined, you create it.

I leave you with a picture of the Founding. It has been over seven years but Temperance has survived the Bush presidency, Hurricane Katrina, several tsunamis and a swift sucker punch to the gut. Although our numbers are small, like 3 of us or something, we strive for inner greatness and hope to inspire others to do the same.