¡Salud, amor y pesetas, y tiempo para disfrutarlos! How do we know that we are alive? Living and existing are not the same. At what point are we living and when simply existing – what is the difference? Sitting in the waiting room for the intensive care unit, I met a family which had...
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Joan Hayden The heat seems endless this year. I have just come in from watering the plants on my porch, and giving a drink of water to the ducks. Oddly, our ducks prefer to be on land, rather than cooling themselves in the lake. I have recently transplanted my bay leaf tree and a...
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The Reading List “For the aim of this book is pleasure. I have never read a book or thought about a subject except for pleasure. Sometimes it is an athletic sort of joy, like a game of tennis, or hunting on a cold, wet day, but if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t...
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October 13, 1958 Our family has few heirlooms, most of which no one else would consider of value. I have just packed away a photo of my father, standing in front of one of his paintings. I am sending it to Caroline, my younger sister. Her name is written on the back of...
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The General and The President “I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at...
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