"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." ~Benjamin Franklin Talking somebody down from the wall of worry is not an easy task. To do so you must deftly skirt accusations like "you just don't understand" and "you're not hearing me" while reassuring, distracting and refocusing attention on …
Tag: American
The Simple Things in “L”ife
My youngest son, who is now four years old, learned to pronounce the letter "l" properly this weekend. I daresay that I will miss the "w" that typically stood in the place of a properly pronounced hard "l", but hey, "wife" goes on. He spent the entire weekend searching for words that began …
Regular Care Saves Despair
Have you ever noticed how often people will give their house, car, room or yard an extreme makeover just before moving or putting them up for sale? Rather than care for what they have all the way along they prefer to let entropy have its way, and their material possessions slowly and unnecessarily decay. Some …
Honor and Life
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life." ~ William Shakespeare I daresay this morning that virtually every unpleasant element aspect of the human condition came into being through the words and actions of men and women who held their lives more dear than their honor. …
Gregory Hake 