While manning my new Cooper's Hawk last evening (a process falconers take new birds through which requires hours of sitting and bonding with a wild bird in preparation for the hunting season), I watched the first 40 minutes of a documentary released in 2009 called Vanishing of the Bees. To make a long story short, …
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
Antibiotics will prove to be either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern medicine, depending on how they are used over the next decade. As powerful medicines that combat harmful bacteria, modern antibiotics have saved many lives since their discovery in the 1930s. The concept of using chemicals to fight bacterial infections was …
To Hope
Hope only springs eternal in those who remain true to the truth, regardless of external pressures. Hope is the pilot light which ignites the passionate fires of faith, though it too can be extinguished by the turbulent winds of frantic activity when darkness is upon the face of the deep. When you face the unknown, …
Every Man a Word
If, as James A. Garfield wrote, "The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word", then Garfield himself left an ineffaceable word of victory, of the triumph of truth over deception, upon the pages of the history of man. His approach was …
Clean Respect
“I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.” - James A. Garfield When you refrain from judging others you find that they come to you wearing the judgments they've accumulated over the years. …
An Exceptional Person
With expenditures projected at $5,800,000,000 the 2012 presidential and congressional elections will be the most expensive on record, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Campaign strategists estimate that 80% of the money spent is wasted, but the 20% which does hit its mark somehow does so through a public which has historically proven …
Flow Forward
I spent the better part of two days this weekend and last behind a chainsaw. My brother-in-law are clearing out the old and unsalvageable landscaping around my house in preparation for a new look. It's one of those projects that takes time, that unfolds in stages, and that requires patience, diligence and careful attention to …
The Unshakeable of Soul: Doctors
Doctors by Rudyard Kipling Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned. His days are counted and reprieve is vain: Who shall entreat with Death to stay his hand; Or cloke the shameful nakedness of pain? Send here the bold, the seekers of the way-- The passionless, the unshakeable of soul, Who serve the inmost …
Character of the Happy Warrior
Character development is a deeply personal matter. Others can provide guidance and go a long way in setting the conditions conducive to healthy development, but at the end of the day your character is built in the little choices you make from moment to moment. Character is not built overnight and it does not come …
Duty-First
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt Call it a midwestern bias, but to my mind the most important quality of the American spirit is the notion of "duty-first." Moreover, the degree to which an …
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