Thursday, October 27, 2005

Honest Abe

As I mentioned in an earlier post there was a great article by Joshua Wolf Shenk in October's Atlantic Monthly called, "Lincoln's Great Depression," parts of which really hit home with me. So, I'm going to share a few of them with you via the Brain Train in case you don't have access to the magazine. Here is the first:

"With Lincoln we have a man whose depression spurred him, painfully, to examine the core of his soul; whose hard work to stay alive helped him develop crucial skills and capacities, even as his depression lingered hauntingly; and whose inimitable character took great strength from the piercing insights of depression, the creative responses to it, and a spirit of humble determination forged over decades of deep suffering and earnest longing." (p. 54)

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