
Pony Express I spotted this homage to the Pony Express, while driving through Kansas. Regardless of the current issues we are dealing with, the postal service has come a long way; for which I am grateful.
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Pony Express I spotted this homage to the Pony Express, while driving through Kansas. Regardless of the current issues we are dealing with, the postal service has come a long way; for which I am grateful.
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Is that Pink in the Autumn? Falls palette is supposed to be yellow, orange, red, and ultimately brown. These vibrant colors are usually seen against the steadfast evergreens, which you know will keep you company through winter. But look at these splashes of pink, yes pink! I do not expect to see...
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Thomas Wolfe House “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but...
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Columbus Day It is my understanding that this statue of Christopher Columbus, in Columbus, Ohio, has been removed; I am so glad I took the time to photograph it, when I did. The monument has fallen prey, like so many cultural elements in our history, to a mob rule, which seeks to...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Grey Weather, Morning with Figures, Eragny by Camille Pissarro I do not see the grey morning; rather I am drawn to the golden fields, bordered by wild flowers, and the harvest. I...
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The Anatomy of a Cybersecurity Attack I have felt lately like we, in the cyber security community, are failing at our posts. Our clients are suffering from real day to day cybersecurity threats, turning off their computers at night, to wake up to the same scenario that they just left. We keep saying if...
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Higginsville “It is not that we are old, we are just not young anymore.” The words are not mine, and I am afraid I may not have quoted them correctly. I heard them, on the original Magnum P.I., spoken by Tom Selleck’s character, and thought about how true they rang. Magnum P.I., the original...
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Library Walk “Truth exists. Only falsehood has to be invented.” George Braque (1882-1963) – Le Jour et La Nuit Sometimes we must look down to see the view. One of my favorite places in New York is the Public Library, on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street; you know where the two large marble lions,...
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Possibilities There are so many ways This could go What it might become I have to wonder Which path will be taken Either way I know There will be consequences You do not seem to mind Neither do I But I do not believe That all choices are equal I suppose We will know...
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To read the story of how my parents met and began their ministry:
“When the barbarians of an age other than ours burned alive the saintly Chanina ben Teradion, shrouded in his Sefer Torah, the martyr bore witness from the flames: ‘The parchment is burning, but the letters are soaring aloft.’ How often, how very often, in Jewish history has the parchment, which is the people, been destroyed; and from the embers has the spirit risen and survived to inspired the scribes of other parchments, Jewish and non-Jewish, and to inspire new and fresh cultures withhold, eternal aspirations.”
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”