what the Lord requires
act justly and love mercy
walk humbly with God

From the Bible Verse:

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8 (NIV)

Or as it was tweeted out today by WNBA star, Maya Moore who prefers the Holman Christian Standard Bible:

Mankind, He has told you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 (HCSB)

MS. Moore was celebrating.

Celebrating not a sports milestone or sports victory.

But a victory for mankind.

A victory for all of us.

Ms. Moore is from around here in Gwinnett County,

She graduated from Collins Hill High School.

I have a son and a daughter who graduated from Collins Hill High School.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ms. Moore, 30, led Collins Hill to four consecutive state championships appearances, winning three, and was named Miss Georgia Basketball in 2007. At Connecticut, Moore was part of back-to-back national championship teams in 2009-10 and a two-time national player of the year. After being selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 WNBA draft by the Lynx, Moore went on to win four league championships and was named Rookie of the Year, WNBA MVP, a six-time all-star, a three-time all-star MVP and five-time all-WNBA first team among her accolades. She was also part of two Olympic gold medal winning teams for the United States in 2012 and 2016.

She has accomplished some amazing things.

On Monday, she witnessed a judge in Missouri overturn the conviction of Jonathan Irons, whose appeal of 50-year sentence for burglary and assault had been backed by Ms. Moore.

Ms. Moore took leave from her basketball career to take up the cause of Jonathon Irons.

Ms. Moore heard about the Irons case 5 years ago and has been working on Mr. Irons behalf since then.

Monday she heard Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green rule that prosecutors had suppressed evidence in the case against Irons, who was tried and convicted as an adult at the age of 16 in 1997, and spent 23 years in prison. He was convicted of breaking into a home outside St. Louis and shooting the homeowner hiding in a closet. Green called the prosecution’s case “very weak and circumstantial at best” with no physical evidence linking Irons to the crime and eyewitness testimony that was “dotted with inconsistencies.”

How has she accomplished these things?

Interviewed on National TV, Ms. Moore wore a T Shirt that said;

Do Justice

Love Mercy

Walk Humbly.

Micah 6:8

Do Justice

Love Mercy

Love Humbly.

Pretty demanding isn’t it.

Forget the T shirt, carve this on my heart.

Ms. Moore tweeted another verse today.

Let Justice Roll Like a River today (Amos 5:24)

Amen.

anger, emotions
adolescence, foolishness
pursue my purpose

I ran across these words in an interesting article in the Detroit News (For 34 years, Greg Harden has been Michigan student-athletes’ ‘miracle worker‘) about Greg Harden, retiring University of Michigan associate athletic director for athletic counseling.

In the interview, Mr. Harder said, ““I was taking unnecessary risk fueled by anger and emotions and adolescence and foolishness, but at 25, I knew life had some purpose,” Harden said.

“All of a sudden, I had to figure out what was it.

I’m like, ‘OK, I’ve lived to see 25, there must be something I’m supposed to do.

I need to figure it out.’ Well guess what my first purpose was?

To pursue my purpose.

And that is the simplest way to help people who are lost.

I don’t have a purpose?

Yes, you do.

Your first purpose is pursue, examine, test, investigate, experiment, stumble and fall and get back up and try different things to figure out what fits.

pursue

examine

test

investigate

experiment

stumble

fall

get back up

try different things

figure out what fits

Mr. Harden writes that that was him at 25.

That is me at 60.

Well, almost 60.

Days away now.

effort, attitude
control the controllables
focus, energy

Wear the mask.

What else can you do?

It might protect you.

It might protect them.

What else can you do?

What else can you control?

What else can you do that will show other that you care?

Wear the mask.

find some common ground
bitter and hopeless struggle
otherwise life is

From the essay, Ten Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser.

I came across the writings of this artist only after he died.

In point number 1 of his essay, Ten Things, Glaser wrote;

This is a curious rule and it took me a long time to learn because in fact at the beginning of my practice I felt the opposite. Professionalism required that you didn’t particularly like the people that you worked for or at least maintained an arms length relationship to them, which meant that I never had lunch with a client or saw them socially. Then some years ago I realized that the opposite was true. I discovered that all the work I had done that was meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with a client. And I am not talking about professionalism; I am talking about affection. I am talking about a client and you sharing some common ground. That in fact your view of life is someway congruent with the client, otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle.

While the target audience is professional artists, I find this sentence, with some minor tweaking so that it reads That in fact your view of life is someway congruent with another person, otherwise it is a bitter and hopeless struggle applies to everyone.

I feel know what he means.

all born with genius
inner voice listening stops
lose our paths access

There are icons in life.

Images and such that are iconic.

The word gets used way too often and too often applied inappropriately.

An aspect of iconic for me is something is such a part of life that it is difficult to imagine someone came up with the idea or design in the first place.

How else might a typewriter keyboard been designed but the way it is right now under my finger tips.

Didn’t Moses bring the 1st keyboard down from the mountain top?

For me, an example of an iconic design is the classic I ❤ NY.

I am so used to it, I always thought it existed.

Never gave it a second thought.

Turns out it was designed back in 1975 as part of an effort to help revive the city of New York when the city went through a chapter 13.

Turns out it was designed … YES I USED THE WORDS DESIGNED … by a graphic artist named Milton Glaser.

He did the work for the campaign PRO BONO.

Can the amount of earnings Mr. Glaser gave up even be calculated?

But you cannot judge success at the moment of creation can you.

An article in The Guardian about Mr. Glaser says of the logo, “the type and the heart symbol work together, so successful. It also went with a strong sense of humanity and ethics.“

Sorry to say that the article I read about this was Mr. Glaser’s obituary.

Mr. Glaser was quoted as saying, “We are all born with genius,” he said. “It’s like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.”

I love this.

It’s a perfect warning for today.

Don’t stop listening to our inner voices.

Those voices who aren’t reminding us that we need to climb Mt. Everest, but those voices that remind us to get up, go to work, pay the bills, and do other feats of ordinary greatness.

Do not stop listening and do not lose access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry on a daily basis.

I am sorry it was Mr. Glaser’s passing that brought it my attention.

Grateful that it did.

Grateful also for the last line in his Obit.

“None of us really has the ability to understand our path,” Mr. Glaser said, “until it’s over.”