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'Aequanimitas', emblazoned on the shield of The John Hopkins Department of Medicine, is another word that greatly amuses me today, but for altogether different reasons. Given my strong Stoic philosophical roots, there's of course an immediate connection to this most fundamental of Stoic principles, that of imperturbability - which I generally am except when I find myself in close proximity to anyone sporting a leaf blower and whom I immediately hate with a great passion (:
The amusing slant comes from a Google domino trip to the religious magazine, MotiveRev, due to the Sir William Osler quote therein (Sir William Osler, a famed Canadian physician, and one of the four founding professors of John Hopkins hospital, is often called "the father of modern medicine", and a name I had been fossicking earlier today). MotiveRev's primary theme is apparently inspirational African role models but seemingly only those with a strong preference for 'god'. Despite that serious drawback, I did rather enjoy their piece on two chess playing sisters, Seadimo and Tshepang Tlale.
http://motiverev.co.za/motiveteen4.html
Certainly worthy of a serious chortle or two was Tshepang Tlale's (now a 17-year-old Woman International Master) "I like wowing people with my achievements, yet reminding them that it is not me, but He who dwells in me!"
Lots of jokes there, to be sure. When you're playing Tshepang, you're seemingly actually playing God. Who knew that God was only rated 1958 (:
The amusing slant comes from a Google domino trip to the religious magazine, MotiveRev, due to the Sir William Osler quote therein (Sir William Osler, a famed Canadian physician, and one of the four founding professors of John Hopkins hospital, is often called "the father of modern medicine", and a name I had been fossicking earlier today). MotiveRev's primary theme is apparently inspirational African role models but seemingly only those with a strong preference for 'god'. Despite that serious drawback, I did rather enjoy their piece on two chess playing sisters, Seadimo and Tshepang Tlale.
http://motiverev.co.za/motiveteen4.html
Certainly worthy of a serious chortle or two was Tshepang Tlale's (now a 17-year-old Woman International Master) "I like wowing people with my achievements, yet reminding them that it is not me, but He who dwells in me!"
Lots of jokes there, to be sure. When you're playing Tshepang, you're seemingly actually playing God. Who knew that God was only rated 1958 (: