It was a small win, in a huge day that, up to this point, had only delivered defeat. I remember my father atop a splintered picnic bench. Tattered overalls, stained in sweat and dirt, and his skin, an apple red from the oppressive sun. I sat, splashing about in a play pool, wearing my favorite swim.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Thursday, 29 April 2010. Do we live in a Zeitgeist society? It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012. Friday, February 04, 2011. First it was the ice coming in o.

Everyone needs a place to vent and rant from time to time. There are also times when you just want to write down a quiet thought. Feel free to add any Thoughts, Rants and Vents to any of my posts. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Have you ever experienced a period of time that seems to crawl, but at the same time speed by? 9 weeks is the same as 93 days. 9 weeks is 1512 hours. 9 weeks is 90720 seconds. Wednesday, January 27, 2010.