Monthly Archive:: July 2014

Nick Crocker went ahead and wrote one of the best articles I’ve read recently on life lessons. I’m not usually a big fan of these “lists”, but these are genuinely good points of advice. We here at Silo Number Seven are all about media that matters, and this one is definitely one that has been archived for later reference.

Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

This is incredible.  Maggie Doyne, a 26-year old from New Jersey spent a gap year after high school within Nepal.  Fast forward to today and she is dramatically changing the lives of hundreds of children through the development of an orphanage and a school in the Kopila Valley of Nepal.