“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” – James Joyce  “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde “Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” – Kevin Arnold “If you will call your troubles… Continue reading

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. – Christina G. Rossetti… Continue reading

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. The constitutional freedom of religion [is] the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights. – Thomas Jefferson If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. –  Derek Bok Religion, as well as reason, confirms the soundness of those principles on which our government… Continue reading

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there, I’ve chased the shouting wind… Continue reading

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. – Carl Reiner And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. – Roy Bean As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with… Continue reading

“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” – Alan Watts “The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.” – Robert M. Pirsig “That Was Zen; This Is Tao!”  What an impact technology has… Continue reading

“Sign Sign everywhere a sign Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign” – Five Man Electrical Band “A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson   “Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”  –… Continue reading

 Mourning is not linear. It cycles around again and again, sometimes when you least expect it. — Unknown You incorporate the loss into the inner landscape of who you are. — Unknown Mind’s eye seeing you, Heart’s ache missing your presence; Life’s river running — Marvin L. C. Hoffman If you have followed my posts… Continue reading

“…without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!” – Captain John Paul Jones “A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.” – President Theodore Roosevelt “I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his… Continue reading

“Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.” – Gene Brown. “Morons. These people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless. They must think they’re super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network. Unfortunatly, the connection works both ways. Long story short, they now have loads of horse… Continue reading