31. Visions

It is all a command to recognise unseen greatness, to take every least experience we can, and crush ... more

30. Humor

Ten years ago, we took our daughter to DisneyWorld™. My father happened to have a business meeting in ... more

29. Retrospect

I live only six or seven houses down from my childhood home, and so the street that I ... more

28. Memory

I was five years old when on the day following Christmas I badly cut my finger. I have ... more

27. Emotion

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one ... more

26. Growth

Born in a small corner of the world over two thousand years ago was our Peace, our Joy, our ... more

23. Knowledge

Learning is not compulsory…neither is survival.         -- W. Edwards Deming A compelling desire to know should gild the ... more

22. Education

"Tell your son to have a great Christmas, and forget about this place for a while. Tell him not ... more

21. Interpretation

A New Light   For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, today, December twenty-first, is the shortest day ... more

20. Art and Morality

In his classic work, Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan introduces the character Christian, whose haunting vision of impending destruction ... more

17. Art

Last night I had the great opportunity to attend a performance of country music artist and grammy award ... more

16. Poetry and Life

I'm easily influenced by my environment. And if you're like me, even the weather affects your spirit. Dark, rainy ... more

15. Poetry

Poetry as a Way of Thinking   It was this thought that most captured my attention in Benson's book, Joyous ... more

14. Ideas

During what is exam time for many students the enjoyment of Christmas-break seems so far away. I remember that ... more

13. Life

The Invisible Hand is a wonderfully rich feature of life that leads and directs those in search of ... more

10. The Principle of Beauty

That great song by Carole King, "Up on the Roof," tells of a wonderful and transforming vantage point of ... more

9. The Sense of Beauty

My mother used to have difficulty sleeping. And I just liked to stay up late. I remember that quite ... more

8. Progress

"If you don't learn to a program a computer, you'll be functionally obsolete in ten years." That ... more

7. Faith

I enjoy hearing my father talk about growing up in the small, middle-Georgia town of Sandersville. As ... more

6. Experience

For over fifty years, an American flag has marked the corner of this Augusta, Georgia deli, Sunshine ... more