Burt Gershater

Opportunities to choose to do life righter, brighter and better are available to us every day, all day long. Even when we don’t feel like it. Pretty cool, eh? I am assuming you know the last two words of this wise old lesson, “Fake it till you make it.” I learned it a long time […]

I apologize from the very beginning if you began reading today’s message because you thought it was going to provide some enlightenment about the art of sexual love-making. But hopefully today’s message will be one of the most life-impacting you’ve ever read on this eternally compelling topic. I never was comfortable with these common words for […]

Are we ever too young or ever too old to ponder, in our own way, why we’re here? Life seems long sometimes. Sometimes, not so long. Regardless, it’s all we have, so let’s do our best to do it the best we can. Could I have chosen three weightier topics for today’s message? Probably not. […]

You and I were given priceless gifts when we arrived into this world. One is the gift of LIFE, the other is the gift of CHOICE. We never will be able to count all our blessings. But we should try. I have been known, historically, to hyperbolize in my written and oral communications, and realize […]

There is plenty in our personal lives and in our world to bring us down and make us feel low. There is as much or more internally and externally to elevate our spirits to help us go higher. This is our never-ending work. Such a significant, complicated, crucial and polarizing question. Let me tell you […]

After reading the title, most of you elders out there will instinctively say these words to yourself: “Who wrote the Book of Love?” Why? Many of you juniors reading this may be wondering. Because those are the very next words to the popular song sung by the Monotones in 1958. Everyone knew it, sung it […]

We have learned, at least many of us have, not to speak everything we think…but many of us need to get better at not even believing everything we think, or even listening to it. So much of it is simply junk! That sounds harsh and I mean it to be. We need to wake up […]

Wendy and I are moving tomorrow for the 10th, maybe 11th time in the past five months. All is well. Our home is under reconstruction, and living there with the roof off and pounding hammers all day has not been one of our options. So, it has blessedly been an amazing assortment of hotels, stove-less […]

I don’t want to be a slave, but I am I don’t even know all the ways I’m enslaved Freedom is the answer but what does freedom from slavery actually mean? Let’s start with the history of slavery in our world. Slavery has been around for thousands of years. As long ago as 6800 BCE, as […]

Oh, yeah? One is the biggest number?? Read on! At the simplest level, one is the first number we learn when we’re toddlers. That is not remotely sufficient to make one the biggest number, but it’s a start. And isn’t there something special about being the first? The first person ever to walk on the […]