“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all”

—Emily Dickinson

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  • More to Do

    There is more to do than can be done. There is a smorgasbord of fun. The race is longer than can be run. Face it; we are under the gun. So … do what you can while you can. "“As… Continue reading

  • Margins Too Wide and Too Narrow

    I’m working on margins. I come to this challenge from time to time and I find it to be a balancing act between making them too wide and too narrow. Continue reading

  • Love Edifies through Words

    One implication of the fact that love edifies is manifest in our use of words to communicate knowledge. Knowledge, of the sort that puffs up, is shared with the goal of aggrandizing ourselves and asserting our superiority over ideas and… Continue reading

  • Love Edifies

        "… Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies."  – I Corinthians 8:1 (NKJV) To edify is to build something from the ground up … like people … toward the direction of their purposes and dreams. We can know much… Continue reading

  • How utterly quotable one might be if words were fewer and not so free. Continue reading

  • Say It

    Here is a little formula for saying what you want to say: S.A.Y.- I.T. S – Search your own heart and mind for what you really want to convey. A – Assess your audience so that you can access their… Continue reading

  • Say It

    Here is a little formula for saying what you want to say: S.A.Y.- I.T.   S – Search your own heart and mind for what you really want to convey. A – Assess your audience so that you can access… Continue reading

  • Saying More With Fewer Words

    "When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise." – Proverbs 10:19 (New International Version (©1984)) I am working on using fewer words to say more. At the very least, there is a… Continue reading

  • Habits of the First Half of Life

    "It seems, in fact, that, the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." – Fyodor Dostoevsky As much as I love Dostoevsky, I am not buying… Continue reading

  • Life Academy

    Life Academy We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork… Continue reading

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