What’s the meaning of this?!
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Welcome to my first-ever blog. I’ve written tens of thousands of editorials and newspaper articles, and now I’ve written a book, The Last Freedom. But this is my first-ever blog entry. I feel like a 10-year-old test-driving a Jaguar. You have to know both how to drive it and where to take it.
OMG! I’ve got 2, like, BTW, write like this? Will this go out into space, like, forever? Will some alien civilization see this and turn back, perhaps saving the Earth from total destruction or enslavement?
Whatever. Actually, I know where I want to test-drive this blog. I plan to use it to tell stories about my incredible, unlikely journey that took me from Topeka, Kansas, to Vienna and to the teachings of Viktor Frankl. And to invite you to tell me your stories.
I wrote this book because so many people know about Viktor Frankl — people have come to my talks on him with his Man’s Search for Meaning in hand — but so many people do not know of him. He was not a self-promoter, and his message about finding meaning in life’s moments isn’t as sexy as Freud’s, and then Dr. Frankl died in-between Mother Teresa and Princess Di.
I wrote it in novel form to make the jump to the entertainment media. To see Viktor Frankl’s name up in lights, and beneath it “…and time permitting, Frank Sinatra.” (OK, I borrowed that joke from the movie Top Secret.)
Anyway, lots of wonderful things have happened along this journey, and I’ll share some of them in this little cubby of cyberspace. And I hope you other Frankl fans will do the same.
So, let me get the discussion started:
Hello. My name is Michael. And I’m a Franklphile.
More to come…
Michael 8/19/08