We are again reminded that to do good and to be renewed in our desire for the eternity, we need to not only be new wines – but to be clothed in new skins*. The other gem that comes to mind in adopting this new clothes is to accept that we are mere vessels** – and…
You don’t have to finish First; You just have to finish Together
These photos, taken over two seasons in Spring, of the coastal city in the southern tip of South Korea is a wonderful reminder of the rhythm of the city as the seasons pace themselves through the year. Busan is neither metropolis nor a village, and its roots as a seaport is revealed by the dotted…
The Caesalpinia pulcherrima or Dwarf Peacock never fails to delight the parakeets as they harvest the pods and seeds. While the strict gardener will remove the pods to preserve the beauty of the bushy canopy and profuse flowers, I will leave the pods for the birds as they noisily munch on the seeds and scatter…
1 There is a bad time to rebuke someone. Those who keep silent are the prudent ones. 2 How much better to investigate than to be angry! 3 And those who confess openly will be kept from loss. 4 Like eunuchs desiring to violate a girl, so are those who make decisions by force. 5…
This is the house that Frank Lloyd Wright built over a waterfall at Bear Run, Fayette County, in rural southwestern Pennsylvannia for the family of Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann’s department store, as a weekend home. It is regarded as one of the architect’s most beautiful masterpiece, building over the falls instead of…
Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to destruction is wide and spacious, and many take it; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it Photo note: Taken at mid-day on Hill Street at the mouth of the Singapore…
For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is a good thing., but if salt has become insipid, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another. (Mk 49-50) Photonote: May 2016, at Badwaters, Death Valley National Park, CA. GM1
The paved desert road in modern times, is like an air-conditioned carpet through a presently desolate but geologically recent and verdant past. But it’s not lifeless.
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit” Plaque on President Ronald Reagan’s desk (1980-88) “The whole idea of the Presidency is having somebody in the Oval Office who can try to get above the bickering and buttonholing in the cloakrooms…