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“A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great or beautiful cathedral. The extermination of the passenger pigeon meant that mankind was just so much poorer; exactly as in the case of the destruction of the cathedral at Rheims. And to lose the chance to see frigate-birds soaring… Continue reading

“The [DADT] policy is an absurdity and borderline on being an obscenity. What it does is cause people to ask of themselves that they lie to themselves, that they pretend to be something that they are not. There is no empirical evidence that would indicate that it affects military cohesion. There is a lot of… Continue reading

“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