Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: Would We Accept Responsibility?
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum (author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.)
Ethan Crumbley. Remember the name? I’d wager most of us don’t. I didn’t, at least until I happened upon his parents’ sentencing last week as it was broadcast on the radio. In 2021, Ethan was fifteen-years-old when he shot and killed four classmates in his high school in Michigan. He’s serving a life […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What If It Isn’t a Joke?
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
–President Abraham Lincoln
Well, we made it through another April Fools’ Day. Like Halloween, not my favorite day of frivolity. Call me a Donnie Downer, but such celebrations are nearly devoid of any redeeming value. Don’t get me wrong; I like to kid my family and friends just as much or more than the next person, but I don’t devote an entire day to it.
That […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Hath God Wrought?
“Oh beautiful, for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain.”
–America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates; 1893)*
Last week, my family and I spent a wonderful week in Arizona with a million of our closest tourist friends. Most of our time was in Sedona and at the Grand Canyon, where parking lots were packed, traffic was heavy, and hikers were abundant.
Yes, it was Spring Break, but the attraction was the landscape: the jaw-dropping, knee-buckling […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Of Pride, Power, and Prejudice
“The self is persistent. Quietly, subtly, ingeniously, it works itself back to the center.”
–from Earth and Altar (Eugene Peterson, theologian and author)
Well, folks, it’s Super Tuesday, and by the end of the day two candidates for POTUS will have all but sewn up their respective nominations. They’re also the two people almost seven out of ten Americans don’t want to see four more years of. Yet, they soldier on–the critics, pollsters, and voters be damned.
One candidate demands total fealty. If […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Would We Accept Responsibility?
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
–Robert Fulghum (author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.)
Ethan Crumbley. Remember the name? I’d wager most of us don’t. I didn’t, at least until I happened upon his parents’ sentencing last week as it was broadcast on the radio. In 2021, Ethan was fifteen-years-old when he shot and killed four classmates in his high school in Michigan. He’s serving a life […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What If It Isn’t a Joke?
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
–President Abraham Lincoln
Well, we made it through another April Fools’ Day. Like Halloween, not my favorite day of frivolity. Call me a Donnie Downer, but such celebrations are nearly devoid of any redeeming value. Don’t get me wrong; I like to kid my family and friends just as much or more than the next person, but I don’t devote an entire day to it.
That […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What Hath God Wrought?
“Oh beautiful, for spacious skies; For amber waves of grain; For purple mountain majesties; Above the fruited plain.”
–America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates; 1893)*
Last week, my family and I spent a wonderful week in Arizona with a million of our closest tourist friends. Most of our time was in Sedona and at the Grand Canyon, where parking lots were packed, traffic was heavy, and hikers were abundant.
Yes, it was Spring Break, but the attraction was the landscape: the jaw-dropping, knee-buckling […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Of Pride, Power, and Prejudice
“The self is persistent. Quietly, subtly, ingeniously, it works itself back to the center.”
–from Earth and Altar (Eugene Peterson, theologian and author)
Well, folks, it’s Super Tuesday, and by the end of the day two candidates for POTUS will have all but sewn up their respective nominations. They’re also the two people almost seven out of ten Americans don’t want to see four more years of. Yet, they soldier on–the critics, pollsters, and voters be damned.
One candidate demands total fealty. If […]