Wednesday, December 31, 2008
And SoThe Clock Strikes Midnight
The day passes; life passes. Like birth, the first day of each year is a new beginning. Like an infant just separated from mom’s umbilical chord, air flows to the lungs and there is a scream. Unlike an infant, those who have been around for a few years know what our screams, our sighs, our tears...
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Monday, December 29, 2008
In Hoc Anno Domini
This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal week one day last week. As indicated, it was first published 1n 1949, and has been annually repeated ever since. For those who do not get WSJ, or even for those who have read this editorial before, I share this great piece. Indeed, my poem Spirit Of...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Suffer The Little Children...
People will go to church today. People will pray today. People will play today. People in the Christian world will celebrate, in many ways, the birth of Jesus. Yet nothing is more gratifying to me than to see children with their toys; their expectations realized; the gleam in their eyes; their...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
AGAIN!
I am the opinion this thought is very appropriate at this time of the year. We cannot give what we do not have. But oh how so much we have to give!! We fail miserably when we ignore our friends. Sometimes we conclude that we cannot offer the little things lest they not be appreciated. Yet it is the...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Reintroduced!
The mind accedes to brilliance when he realizes that he does not know much; develops the commitment and urge to know more; and concedes the frustrating discovery that he will never know enough. (LST/NY/04/28/07) Copyright © 2008 LST's INFOS and QUIPS
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
TAP'S TAKE
I reproduce a portion of Tap's post on her blog Perplexities. It says so much. Please go over and read the whole article. It is worth it. "We are the ships on the Blogit Sea blown with the winds and tossed, some have gone down into the deep, broken up by the coral reef, sunk in the dark green brine....
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Today's Quotes
The first and second are from two of the world's best revered minds. Give some credit to the third. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. - George Bernard Shaw It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle All marriages are...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Realistic Conclusions?
You are wisest if you are convinced you are relatively uninformed. The most beautiful woman may be the least secure; she cannot be sure whether her many suitors admire her or her beauty. Mothers love because their children are physically, biologically, and emotionally part of them; wives love...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Some New Quotes
I like them all, but especially the first. And Frost is one of my favourite poets. Read his, The Road Less Traveled. It is a masterpiece. An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. - Nicholas Chamfort...
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Friday, November 28, 2008
My Mumbai friends.
There is a number of Bloggers on this board who hail from, or are descendants of, India. Let me take this opportunity to say that I hope that you did not suffer the personal loss of friends or family in the despicable actions of those at Mumbai. If you did, you have my condolence. I have many...
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