Description:
Who says character doesn't matter?.. Are you a collector, a hoarder? Collect treasures from heaven instead.. New York Times censors Coach John Wooden's 7-point creed.. Coach John Wooden - "love isn't love until you give it away"..
Contents:
Who says character doesn't matter?
Photo: Stock XxchngSomewhere the folkloric idiom "character doesn't matter" crept into our popular culture. It's reported to be a quote from President Bill Clinton and there are numerous references to that particular saying circa 1990...
Are you a collector, a hoarder? Collect treasures from heaven instead
(AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)What do you collect? The other day, an interesting story about a stamp collector came within earshot. Apparently the collector is a very studious and meticulous fellow, willing to expend large amounts o...
New York Times censors Coach John Wooden's 7-point creed
Photo: Stock-xchngCan't help but wonder about The New York Times...Its self-perception, as well as the perception of many of the "educated class", is that it carries the gravitas of the national newspaper of record with the mott...
Coach John Wooden - "love isn't love until you give it away"
AP File PhotoCoach John Wooden died yesterday. When he started out as a young man, he thought the University of Minnesota would be the perfect place to coach college basketball. But as Proverbs 16:9 says:"In his heart a man plans his...
Me and you - what's it really mean?
Photo: www.chicagonow.comSometimes, if you're in just the right mood, small things can seem profound. Like the fragrance of a Linden tree around the 4th of July - it just stands there and perfumes the air with a fragrance that can only belong to...
Celebrate Memorial Day by paying it forward
Photo: Danzig Gallery Southern Maryland OnlinePay it forward is an expression that flies around here and there. It stems from the 2000 movie "Pay It Forward" inspired by Catherine Ryan Hyde's book of the same name. Any...
Rationing freedom
(Photo: Big Stock Photo)So much discourse, so many frothing indictments, red-hot epithets spun about in the media from one group to another and why? ... well, because a difference of opinion steers a different course of action.So many words see...
To serve and protect - Peace Officers Memorial Day is today
(Photo: Scott Terrell/goskagit.com)The motto "To Serve and Protect" has been painted on the police cars in my city (Denver) all my life. I paid attention because one of my neighborhood bud's Dad was a police officer. I know, beca...
National Etiquette Week - who cares?
(Photo: Big Stock Photo)The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ...
Rude is contagious - celebrate National Etiquette Week
(Photo: Library of Congress: William Leroy Jacobs, 1869-1917)This week is National Etiquette Week. Who would have known? Is it printed on school calendars, or calendars that municipalities and other government agencies use? Is it announced by th...
Are babies born knowing good and evil?
(Photo credit: http://www.stock.xchng.com/)A few posts ago while writing about the keen sense of fairness that kids operate with, I mentioned how kids begin organizing their world by learning words that mean the opposite of one and other. T...
Where do you get your news?
(Photo credit: http://bonniekaryn.wordpress.com/)Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.Abraham LincolnYou hear all kinds o...
Life isn't fair: so make it better!
Life isn't fair. Kids think life is suppose to be fair. Kids start organizing their world by opposites: big - little, high - low, hot- cold, fair - unfair, like - hate and on it goes. It's pretty black and white and ...
Launch a Liberty Lunch Club in your neighborhood
Photo: National ArchivesThe summer season is reaching for us, bringing tantalizing eagerness for ball games, concerts in the park, road trips, holidays, swimming, hikes in the mountains, barbecues with friends and family - extra leisure time! I...
Taxed Enough Already - a Denver tea partier's story
Photo: Dan BidstrupI went to a tea party today. It was a new thing for me, not being a crowd kind of person in any way. Having heard the news story that some folks who are riled up at tea party people might "infiltrate" and...
Homocide, infanticide and gendercide: where in the world?
'You are only a girl. You are spilt water': This cold, dismissive expression is universally used about unwanted daughters - and to their faces. Photo: UK MailOnlineFrom the thought to the deed. After that, everythin...
Tyki Nelworth - a young person's struggle with hardship grows a man
Photo:Tyki Nelworth a star student leader at Washington Preparatory High School, who is officially classified as homeless. CBS"Victory is won by struggling against oppostion. Victory is something you have to get up and take charge of."...
Words have meaning, and Main Street is listening
Photo:Embassy of the United States, Ankara TurkeyPresident Obama seems to love intellectual nuance above all else. While he knows the persuasive power of words that speak to the heart, ("yes we can; change we can believe in"...
Inconvenient thoughts about convenience
Richard Rothwell, 97, of Catonsville, Md., talks with a U.S. Marine Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at Mount Sribachi on Iwo Jima, Japan. Dozens of U.S. veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, returned to the remote volcanic island of Iwo Jima to mark th...
This past week's events show Americans need more knowledge about economics and our constitution
Photo: stock.xchngAh spring, the season of change; health care, education, and they say immigration is just around the corner. However, the focus of this snowy-day homily is education.The Obama administration recently introduced some proposed changes...
Home
|
|
