Posted in LeaderFOCUS, Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Monday Morning, May 12, 2008
For Sara Tucholsky, it was the senior year she dreamed of. She was not a stand-out (batting only .153), but she was a starter. A utility player. Her team, however, the Wildcats of Western Oregon University, had a winning season this year. That Sunday afternoon in Ellensburg, Washington, they were up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Monday Morning, May 5, 2008
This morning, as we anticipate the telling returns from the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, I will once again stick my verbal toe in the political waters. Some will conclude that I am a card carrying Democrat and Obama supporter. I am not.
It’s been eight weeks since I wrote an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2008 | 8 Comments »
February 11, 2008
Another one of those changes I’ve encountered since my Rip Van Winkle style spiritual awakening is the emergence of fiction as a genre for Christian books. Seems like someone has figured out that the mountain of how-to volumes over at the Christian bookstore can be livened up some if you put your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
February 4, 2008
Ptolemy had his work cut out for him back in the second century. The night sky fascinated him. He would start with the only fixed point in the sky, the North Star (as we call it). Night after night, from his home in Egypt, he would record the motion of the stars [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Monday Morning, December 31, 2007
Some words, just by their sound, carry a certain appeal. Serenity is one of those words. Serenity is a place of quiet; of peace; of contentment. A walk in the garden or alongside a still pond with a swan floating by. Lots of color. A gentle breeze on a balmy afternoon. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Monday Morning December 24, 2007
We may be in an economic downturn in the housing market; oil prices are at an all time high and the dollar is worth less than ever outside the United States. But the folks down the road in Eagle Hills must have had a very good year.
The electric meter on these elegant [...]
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