31. Knowledge

Foundations One of the first college courses that I really enjoyed was Finance. It sounds boring, I know. But finance ... more

28. Education

Crossroads Most often I find driving to work a rather boring routine: turn after turn it’s the same scenery. Even the ... more

10. Interpretation

Places in the Sand The vacant lot across from my boyhood home was mostly covered with brush. It remained that way ... more

23. Art and Morality

A Southern Lady For some months after my mother Emily died, my thoughts and memories of her were mostly wrapped in ... more

13. Art

The Way Out “You don’t know what dark is until you’ve been in a coal mine without a light.” That’s what ... more

11. Poetry and Life

Falling Apart I’m sure you’ve had days when everything just seemed to come unglued – when plans unraveled and the ... more

Immure

Immure -- To wall in, surround with a wall or walls; to fortify Kozintsev's opening scene shows the castle drawbridges being ... more

9. Poetry

[caption id="attachment_1627" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="photograph (c) J. Ashe Bowie"][/caption] The Stength of a Nation Boston’s Bunker Hill Bridge unites the beauty of ... more

Ideation

Ideation -- The formation of mental images of things not present to the senses. OED Example: Christopher Miller: The opportunities for ... more

30. Ideas

The World of Ideas If you’re like me, your best days are fueled by thoughts of a better tomorrow – a ... more

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Trenchant

Trenchant -- Having a keen edge, sharp. Dancer-choreographer Maida Withers, Washington's leading conceptual artist, has devoted the past 25 years to ... more

28. Life

Oops None of us go to bed at night hoping that tomorrow we’ll get up and start making mistakes. But ... more

20. The Principle of Beauty

On the Nature of Things The other day while I was on a walk I noticed something a bit unusual, ... more

“I was just looking at it with my wife—I think it was over breakfast on a Saturday morning,” he recalls. ... more

19. The Sense of Beauty

Curves In my last post (Day 16. Faith) I wrote of life’s motions, describing some of them as circular and curved ... more

16. Progress

Circles Most of life’s activities are recurrent. Some things we do every day, some once a week or once a month, ... more

15. Faith

Twisted Colors It was just yesterday that I wrote about puzzles. Well this morning I opened a small package in the ... more

14. Experience

Puzzled At one time or another you’ve probably seen one, a Chinese puzzle-box. Essentially it’s a decorative wooden box that locks ... more

13. Hope

Something to Smile About My friend Terry is a simple man. He treasures the things we should all love: friendship, a ... more