Work found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Line_of_young_people_at_a_commencement_ceremony.jpg / PD We're in the midst of graduation season now, and earlier today our youngest son graduated from college. :) As I was "grazing" once again through "John Elias: Life, Letters and Essays" (e.g. -…

Left this comment on someone's site: "Tea Party activists were treated unfairly by a whopping two of the IRS' one hundred and six thousand employees. And lets remember they were merely held to the standard of the law. It's not like IRS had them assassinated or crashed their bank accounts on a wh…

I just responded to a blog about a series of coincidences which seem to be leading to a positive conclusion in someone's life and the conclusion was how this is god's hand in events and so on. I thought my response was worth posting:…

We use the term "animal" to refer to any animal species except humans and often to contrast ourselves with them, ie "stop behaving like an animal", or "what were you born in a barn?". We think of animals with contempt but the fact is despite all our advancements as a species we are still animals.…

Here little one, take the hand. Walk, talk, show you just as you show me. The days pass by too quickly, you grow and change. Need you, just as you need me, and here for you. So take the hand, walk with me, little one. Gazing at the running waters, walking along the highest bridges. Throughout this l…