Curiosity

by Ed Gibney

Daniel's friend Oliver has left him an unexpected inheritance. So far, it's just been a trail of clues leading him around to different people that Oliver knew, but the last clue will take him to a strange and foreign place. Will it all be worth it?

In 2004, positive psychologists Peterson and Seligman published a list of 24 character strengths drawn from ancient and modern texts of wisdom from around the world. Contemplate one of them as part of a series of short stories by writer and philosopher Ed Gibney. To see more, go to evphil.com.

15 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 15, 2013

About the author

Ed Gibney loves a good life and has traveled the world looking for the best ones. He grew up with Amish neighbors in rural Pennsylvania, worked on construction sites in the deserts of the American West, was broadened by the cosmopolitan diversity of San Francisco, spent a summer consulting for an Inuit community in Alaska, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, made government more efficient at the headquarters of the FBI and the Secret Service, wrote novels and philosophy by the seaside in the north of England, and currently resides in Vienna, Austria, the world’s most livable city. Almost all of this was with his wife of nearly 25 years who has been a police officer, a Senate volunteer, a professor of criminology, and a head of research for the United Nations. He can’t wait to see what’s next.