Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.”—Epictetus, Greek philosopher Back in the mid-fifties, in the little town in which I grew up in northern Ohio, I read, between novels about Indians in southern Ohio and in the
Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton What Country is the Happiest? Every few months I come across still another survey to determine what are the happiest countries in the world. Knowing that one can find happy people in every country in the world, I take these studies with a bucket of salt.
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “The Impossible Dream” Miguel de Cervantes (1564-1616) suffered unceasing failure throughout his life, yet in the only work of Cervantes that is still read, Don Quixote de la Mancha, written in his senior years, while in prison, Cervantes created a character with such a high and noble
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “The Last Generation” Adam and Eve were the “last generation” to live in a world without “things”…shoes, for example, and Chinese food, or books (including The Bible), children, spoons, or Salma Hayek, clocks, exotic lingerie…or cities, or towns, or villages, or even families…in short, they were the
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All The Horses Of Heaven By James Tipton Reviewed by Bill Frayer In his introduction to James Tipton’s volume of poetry, All the Horses of Heaven, Michael McClintock observes that Jim appears to be “the horniest and healthiest man over sixty in the Western world.” Perhaps. For Mexican sensuality and erotic images suffuse Jim’s
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Howard And Helen Play House By James Tipton Helen had not been the same since Howard had hit her in the head with a can of tuna. That was Howard as in “husband” Howard, the same Howard who liked to tell Helen that she needed to change her hair, that he wanted her to look
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That Old Woman Over by Beulah By James Tipton “Son, this land I’m gonna leave you is flat, wet, and poor…sort of like that woman I used to poke around with over by Beulah. But some years when it’s not too hot, or too cold, or too wet, you can coax enough cotton out
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton THE MUSE AT EIGHTY My once young muse is now this ancient crone! No longer pampered by the masses She slips into my room at night alone. “I come to you she says,” in that old tone That made me vulnerable to her passes. (My once
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A Baseball Player Named Pearl By James Tipton A little over one-hundred years ago a young baseball-player-turned-dentist borrowed $600 from his fiancée to self-publish his first novel. That was in 1903. A few years later that author, Pearl Gray—now writing under the name Zane Grey—was earning $100,000 a year with his best-seller Western
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Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton The Only Prayer Remaining Italian musician Arturo Toscanini was one of the most acclaimed conductors of modern times. At various times he directed La Scala (Milan), the Metropolitan Opera (New York), the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. I have in recent months
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