October 28, 2018
The picture in my mind’s eye now is of a summer evening when the trees were full of leaves and the sun was still high at seven o’clock but at an angle that threw shadows and tinted the light in a way that made it seem golden and streaked with some darker, richer hue. It…
October 15, 2018
History is made by the best of us and the worst of us over the heads of the rest of us. Philosopher longshoreman, Eric Hoffer, was the author of the above quote, which struck me the first time I read it. It does seem that that is the way the world truly works. Good people…
October 2, 2018
Sometimes a really bad idea can gain a foothold in a large population and spread like a virus. Over the centuries, there have been many: the eerie threat of witchcraft, the deep danger of religious heresy, the revealed presence of secret Communists in the U.S. State Department. These widely shared psychoses are dangerous and often…