Part One A Feast for the Eyes The account of a courageous woman named Esther as recorded in the Old Testament book by the same name, brings together the elements of anti-Semitism, ethnic ‘cleansing’, an assassination plot, of sexism, of civil disobedience, of speaking truth to power, of actions one woman takes to save her people,…
As we head into the New Year let’s take a moment to not look back… Sentimentality is that taskmaster which keeps us longing for the leeks and garlic of Egypt, the known-knowns of past life, up to and including slavery. Sentimentality is gate keeper to the past, fending off reality to preserve sugar-plum memories. Sentimentality…
A group of vets from our company met for lunch yesterday, Veteran’s Day. I received this in an email today from one of the vets. I was asked to pass this along… The Subject line: Honor Them WITH DEEP REGRET Charlie Sheen is 45 and his story is all over the news because he is…
Lest history is revised as a means for present deceptions and determinations and before another angry atheist/liberal professor/fiction writer decides revisionist history is the best way to fool “We the People”, let us read the following proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. A note of context: Eyewitness accounts of the Surrender at Appomattox tell us the events…
The star-spangled sky is having a birthday party, after hours. Batteries of anxious fireworks try hard to contain themselves while hiding in the bushes. Aluminum chairs, stiff legs unfolded, carefully situate themselves to view the cyclorama of America’s unfolding Birthday, any moment now… Into the height of twilight, a single whistling flare finds its way up to center stage…
G. K. Chesterton once said: “We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in…
Heaven Beyond “Imagine“, There, You Are. Before me Unbound Substantive Reality, The Living Word Lifted from gilded pages to eternity’s masthead: “Alpha and Omega.” He now walks among us with beard and white gown, A purple sash hides a pierced side, He is the only Disfigured One among us, The…
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