Something To Think About
May you live in interesting times, often cited and attributed to the Chinese. Well, it is an interesting aphorism but not of Chinese origin. In fact, it’s something Neville Chamberlin’s father, Joseph, said in a speech he gave in 1898, “I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. I never … Read more
I have never seemed to connect with poetry as a form of writing. In conversations with people, they often told me of a poem that impacted their life and how it conveyed significant meaning or comforted them after experiencing a critical emotional event. I tried to embrace the feelings people relayed. I made sporadic attempts … Read more
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly father.” – Matt 18:10 Why do I care? Care about what? You ask. I answer, Uvalde. Who am I talking to? I realize myself. Why am … Read more
As I stand here and look upon the thousands of Negro faces, and the thousands of white faces, intermingled like the waters of a river, I see only one face, the face of the future.
The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. — Genesis 4:10–16 On May 14, 2022, eighteen-year-old Payton Gendron left his suburban home … Read more
I find December a curious month, not because of the Christmas holiday, but because it is a time for reflection. Something I found myself doing when listening to a news feed talking about the tenth anniversary of Sandy Hook. Ten years have passed since that horrific event. Twenty kindergartners and first graders were slaughtered by … Read more
I can no longer push it into the background and move on to other things, and it won’t let me. Oh, it goes away when I demand it but slitters into the background and grins at me in its malevolent way as I take its whole meaning. I can contain it for the moment, but … Read more
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmmud Freud Movies, what a great experience. Especially if you are watching the film adaptation of one of your favorite novels, you are sitting in front of that giant screen, and the opening credits are rolling with the theme song blaring away. Suddenly the characters you know appear. … Read more
The whole history of the progres of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle . . . if there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass I voted early, and it’s not the first time I voted early. So, what’s the big … Read more
“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and island, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.” Sarah Orne Jewett Here I was, trekking off to the barbershop for my biweekly haircut. It was a regular routine. Come hell or high water, I was to make … Read more