29. Sympathy

I guess you'd say that I'm in the middle years of my life. But I hesitate to claim that ... more

28. Accessibility

People are sometimes hard to get to know. I remember this one particular doctor who remained an intimidating figure ... more

27. Thought

The philosophers of ancient Greece placed a high value on thinking. To them it was the highest form of ... more

26. Visions

We must never allow ourselves to make up our minds, and to get our theories comfortably settled, because then ... more

25. Humor

Children are funny, aren't they? At about six-years old they start asking funny questions, a practice they continue ... more

22. Retrospect

What is to be gained by looking back over your life? I think it's true that experience itself is ... more

21. Memory

I don't know about you, but I often think of earlier times; most of my memories are of sweet ... more

20. Emotion

The talented singer and instrumentalist, Eva Cassidy, left this world at the young age of thirty-three. Her influence, ... more

19. Growth

…it is rather by meeting the larger spirit that lies behind life, recognising the impulse which meets us in ... more

18. Knowledge

Listening Beyond   The word "inspire" means literally "to breathe upon or into." This morning I was listening to a CD ... more

15. Education

One has only to reflect on the influence of association, to know how children, who grow up in a ... more

14. Interpretation

Look around, the world is full of patterns, isn't it? Most things in nature have repeating features; pine cones, ... more

13. Art and Morality

I love watching people work; I'm totally fascinated by the movements of hands and arms and the flexing of ... more

12. Art

Growing up I thought my friend's older brother, Bobby, had the coolest bedroom. I remember that it was always ... more

11. Poetry and Life

Driving on Washington Road here in Augusta yesterday I was listening to a live radio broadcast of the action ... more

8. Poetry

that the thing or thought, whatever it is, should strike the mind as beautiful, and arouse in ... more

7. Ideas

For thirty-one years Betty has been putting a new face on furniture. Operating out of a small garage in ... more

6. Life

"….that we are all in the mind of God, and that we cannot wander beyond the reach of His ... more

5. The Principle of Beauty

The end is rather to live fully and ardently, to recognise the indestructibility of the spirit, to strip off ... more

4. The Sense of Beauty

Last night I found the perfect opportunity to introduce my eight-year old daughter to the universe. Just before ... more