28. Poetry

A Man's Word I enjoy the rhythm of Christmas. Things in my world slow down this time of year, and I ... more

15. Life

 Joyous Gard is a very perilous place, if we grow too indolent to leave it; the essence of it is ... more

19. Ideas

[caption id="attachment_818" align="alignright" width="580" caption="Alice in Wonderland"][/caption]Coffee's Brewing Early one morning last week I went to the grocery store to buy ... more

16. Life

[caption id="attachment_846" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Upside Down and Inside Out"][/caption]Trails I live my life on paper roads With ink that stains my hand, Blotting ... more

15. The Principle of Beauty

The true lover of beauty will await it everywhere, will see it in the town, with its rising roofs and ... more

14. The Sense of Beauty

What do you see? On my best days I sense things in the light of heaven, as if all were alive ... more

12. Progress

Breaking down barriers: that's what comes to mind when I think of making progress. You see, I have a terribly ... more

9. Faith

The outcasts of society, the sinful, the ill-regulated, would never have so congregated about our Saviour if they had felt ... more

13. Experience

On the Edge My friend Larry and his wife recently took a "canyon trip." Over the period of a week they ... more

12. Hope

Next time Most of time there's a next time, and thankfully so. Life would be torturous indeed if there were no ... more

28. Work

I don't know whether it's the lighter-fluid or the water that makes them shine up so well. I think Jerry ... more

13. Science

One of the clearly discernible laws of life is that we can both check and contract habits; and when we ... more

1. Sympathy

I cherish the times, the places, and the circumstances when I have connected with someone in an unusual way. I ... more

31. Accessibility

We, most of us, are so attuned to the day-to-day that we easily lose sight of the greater within - ... more

30. Thought

When I was a teenager I was interested in the purported power of mind over matter. I was intensely curious ... more

9. Visions

   My dog, Puddles, is antisocial. She loves humans. But she cares very little about her own kind. She's ten-years-old and ... more

8. Humor

A letter to my son Dear Son, Day by day, in simple ways Some men can make us better. They teach without a single ... more

31. Retrospect

I used to like most anything that had a motor attached to it. Growing up I had a go-cart. For a ... more

15. Memory

But the poetical nature is the nature that is not easily contented, because it tends to idealisation, to the thought ... more

3. Emotion

We have developed a curious idea of what men and women ought to be; and one of our pretences is ... more