One’s Outer Journey Must Mirror One’s Inner Quest “It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed […]
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“In spring more mortal singers than belong To anyone place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng;” —Robert Frost, “Our Singing Strength” Whoosh! Whap! As I strode up the steps toward the upper plaza at Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial out on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, I felt
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“For every abominable thing which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.” Deuteronomy 12:31 King Minos of the once powerful Minoan civilization was a very unhappy man. He had been given a beautiful white bull to serve as seed
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The Day I Met An Endangered Florida Panther “What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts soon happens to man. All things are connected.” —Chief Seattle On a hot, swampy June morning, I sat on the
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Wildlife Need Their Enemies as Well as Their Friends It was still black dark, early in the morning, the opening day of wild turkey season. I cradled my 20-gauge shotgun and sat there transfixed by the musical gurgle of the current in the stream. From time to time, a breeze would cause the treetops, still
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Sixteenth Century Quest Ends in Tragedy and Disappointment “One of the great tragedies of the Christian West was the almost complete destruction of the Indian cultures of America by European and Christian conquerers.” Thomas Merton When the adventurer Pafilo de Narvaez and his crew set out in 1528 to colonize a part of the unfamiliar
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Mother Theresa And The Hexe Of Buchenwald “We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism and love” Jane Goodall. There is always some speculation that if women replaced men and ruled the world, it would be a happier place, without the continuing outrages of crime, racism and war that
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“Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.”-Qoheleth I probably was 14 at the time. I know that it was one of those hot, steamy summer days before I acquired my first newspaper route and still relied upon mowing a few lawns for whatever dollars I
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Dr. Lorin Swinehart goes on the offensive regarding censorship and the effects it has on the students and their education.
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“Through broken walls and gray The winds blow bleak and shrill: They are all gone away.” —Edwin Arlington Robinson “The House on the Hill” The setting sun peeped over the rim of the red rock canyon walls far overhead. I was aware that the winter night would soon descend over my stretch of the southwestern
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