"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances, to...

November 1, 2021 To you, my most beloved companion, I say goodbye for a while. You walked this earth the best you could - you saw, not...

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ~ Albert Einstein ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don't ride the train...

Walking with no particular plan, I spotted this weathered little barn. How resilient it is, I thought, standing in silence, holding its...

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." ~ Michelangelo It's the first day of January, 2021. A day for...

"To love another person (creature), is to see the face of God." ~ Victor Hugo 4:30AM. The day begins with the familiar sounds of birds...

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." ~ Theodore Roosevelt Writing the word 'courageous' makes me feel less afraid. As I hear...

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more." ~ Virginia Woolf On a balmy, rainy day In early December I met...

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." ~ Aristotle In these irregular...

Pictures & Passages; Growth in Solitude, Reassurance in Nature

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau Three years ago a client left the insurance business to produce...

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"The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners, hand on the torch of life." ~ Lucretius I awake at 3 am on this...

"Herein lies the tragedy of the ages: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty, not that men are wicked, - who is good?...

Hello, everyone! Summer is about to end, In Small Doses begins. I hope these past months have been all you'd hoped they would be - fresh...

"It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's...

"I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going." ~ Angela Lansbury...

In The News - This week I'm posting a notice about a program I believe deserves mention. If you're involved in a program you'd like to...

"Divide and rule, the politician cries. Unite and lead, is the watchword of the wise." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Narcissist: a word...

"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's...