Today's Meditation: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, p. 10 Human resilience can accommodate Auschwitz. Imagine how crazy that is . . . t orture, beatings, mass executions, betrayal on all levels. And that's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head. There are more. But man can get used to anything.

Today's Meditation: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, p. 10 Hope is a powerful thing, Persephone's only remaining 'gift.' (Though perhaps the worst of all.) But the loss of hope, the loss of the expected out, can have devastating effects. Hope was often the very trait that signified immanent despair and ultimately, death, in the prisoners.

Today's Meditation: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, p. 6 Some things must be experienced to be understood. Frankl's circumstance is one I'll never have true knowledge of, but perhaps his words will give me enough flavor to enlighten me. He wants to present this in a detached manner, but cannot since he is an integral part of the story. Even so, things can be objectified at least to some extent and thus he tries. And he knows that this is a challenge so he works at it.