Art and Science, a poem by Gregg Hake Art and science when aligned give form to hidden truth, But once divorced or set at odds they lose the bloom of youth. So why do men insist upon a fight to prove their worth, For when allied they do much more than create hell on earth.
A Matter of Time
My eldest son asked an interesting question while we were driving home from my boys' horse riding lesson yesterday evening. Out of the blue he asked, "Daddy, why when you see things in slow motion do you want to stop the bad things from happening even more?" Not quite sure what he meant, I asked …
Just Deserts
As I mentioned yesterday, George Washington wrote out a copy of “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation“, a collection of maxims written in the late sixteenth century in France, when he was about sixteen years old. I've been reading through them and found another that you might enjoy today: 65th Speak …
Rules of Civility
George Washington wrote out a copy of "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation", a collection of maxims written in the late sixteenth century in France, when he was about sixteen years old. They're all quite interesting and useful, but one in particular stood out to me today: 89th Speak not Evil …
Newness
What thwarts the experience of newness, of the constant renewal intrinsic to life? In the natural world, all things are being made new constantly, but human begins, who are according to some the ultimate product of natural selection and are to others the stewards of a benevolent God's creation, seem to have a hard time …
Individualized Medicine
It wasn't too long ago that clothing and shoes were made by tailors and cobblers who were skilled in customizing their products for the customers they served. The industrial revolution almost put an end to that approach, as products made by machines caught the eye and pocketbooks of consumers everywhere and tailors and cobblers all …
The Vicissitudes of Nations
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith. - Alexander Hamilton If there is anything …
Tools for Future Operation
But that time is not lost which is employed in providing tools for future operation: more especially as in this case the books put into the hands of the youth for this purpose may be such as will at the same time impress their minds with useful facts and good principles. If this period be …
Consent of the People
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legislative authority. - Alexander Hamilton The consent of the people is not consent if it is uneducated or uninformed. I fear …
Guardian of Every Other Right
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon ... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. - James Madison It's hard to imagine a time in the American experience where the people and indeed the majority of our elected representatives …
Gregory Hake 