Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Monday Morning, January 28, 2008
Rip Van Winkle was the envy of some of his neighbor friends up in the Castkill Mountains of New York just after the Revolutionary War. Twenty years before, he escaped his irksome wife and the tedious chores back home on the farm, wandered up into the mountain forest, chatted with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
January 21, 2008
When Barak Obama stirred a national audience with a powerful sample of classic oratory, it stirred something in me to write a few lines in praise of the craft (oratory). The occasion was Obama’s victory in the first of the national contests - the Iowa Caucus. My lines churned up some fascinating [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2008 | 9 Comments »
January 14, 2008
I was cornered yesterday by a fifty-eight year old man named Terry who heard that for twenty-five years I had been a financial advisor. He launched a speech I’ve heard many times. “I suppose I need one of those,” he sighed, “but I have no idea how to choose the one that’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Monday Morning, January 7, 2008
Many would say that oratory is a lost art. The humanities have taken a beating the last thirty or forty years. Colleges and universities were conquered long ago by utilitarians who view higher education as a means to an economic end. The disciplines that thrive are those that prepare their students [...]
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