by Think In The Morning | Jul 22, 2026 | More |
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald“Happy is the country which requires no heroes?” Bertolt BrechtWatching an aide enraptured with visiting royalty, [Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau] said bluntly, as they looked out...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 16, 2026 | More |
“The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four books in a lifetime give us anything that is of real importance.” Proust, Swann’s Way The meaningless trivia...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 10, 2026 | More |
When I grew up in the 40s’ and 50s’ I listened every Saturday morning to the Big John and Sparky show. The theme song (The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, see below) blasted from my radio as I lay in bed and waited for the current week’s show to start....
by Think In The Morning | Jul 8, 2026 | More |
Without water there would be no life as we know it. If we think of trees and plants as thoughts, then the waterways are movement of thoughts. A tree is relatively fixed. Water is always going somewhere. It connects one part of the forest to another. It remembers,...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 1, 2026 | Words |
You can’t see the forest for the trees.The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.The whole is other than the sum of its parts. Tiered conifer boughs rise like terraces while the trunks vanish into shadow beneath them. Individual trees lose their distinctness...
