So you all want a story? ok. I will tell one maybe two. David and I were young then. And we were tentmates. This trip forced us to go without certain items for a period of days. We had to carry what we ate, so we did not shop for junk food or munchies. We all had huge packs that we carried our tents...

Back in 1987, reviewing a book by Julian Schnabel, cantankerous art critic Robert Hughes wrote, "he has set some kind of a record for premature retrospection." Hughes added the caveat, "at least among artists," given that American culture was already quite sodden with celebrity tell-alls by the late...

    Artwork by Miss Meg, age 10. Pencil and silver crayon. My artistic apple didn't fall far from the artistic tree. If we don't make things we get mighty hard to live with. March has arrived.  I welcome additional daylight.  The coming of the green.  The ...

Welcome to the Heart of the Matter Online Meme. Every Friday we will feature a d ifferent topic for our meme. Mr. Linky is set up below so please share with us your thoughts on the following: Real Life Subjects: What Your Family Does Ordinarily That Teaches Your Child an Abundance of Lessons As home...

"I'm afraid that if I start dreaming, I'll lose my way." I wrote it in my journal just the other day and immediately saw the irony. When we stop following our dreams, isn't that when we've lost our way and not the other way around? "If I start dreaming, I'm afraid I'll move away from ...

The following was included in this morning's Grace Gems e-mail: Letter to a Dying Teenager (Excerpt from a letter of Legh Richmond to his dying teenage son, 1824) My ever dear son, You are never out of my thoughts -- but there is an eye which beholds and watches over you, in a way that I cannot do. ...

Sean Penn - as Harvey Milk - Best actor in a Motion Picture “Milk”. ” You Commie Homo sons o’ Guns. We must have equal rights for everyone…” Quite the upset tonight. Mickey Rourke did not get his statue. Screenwriter for gay-activist movie ‘Milk’: Very...

I read this article -- and then immediately re-read it. And again. So many layers of meaning, of understanding. Sure, I see the obvious parallels to investing, but its true meaning resonates deeply for me... In any emergency, people essentially divide into three categories. John Leach, one of the wo...

Pity: sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy: to feel pity for a starving child. Mark 1:40-45 A Man With Leprosy A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are w...

Excerpt from my Page: - Naked and Sacred - As a young child I have fond memories of old churches and polished pews and candles flickering in dark corners of the building, statues of saintly persons who looked out over the congregational spaces and the dark corner grottos making sure we knew that the...