Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William BlakeBehind the Locked Door
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Summertime
It has been said that bad things come in threes. It’s an old wives tale thoroughly debunked by the mathematician John Allen Paulos, but you’ll never get the conspiracy theorists to disbelieve it especially in the current political atmosphere. I can...
The Best Giant’s Catcher – Buster Posey – A Story by Karson Jones
Karson Jones is six years old. This is his first story. Most people are just average. Some people are stars. Buster Posey is a star baseball player. How did he become a star? He played a lot of baseball. He catches a lot. But, sometimes he needs a...
The Kid Who Loved His Grandparents So Much by Carter Jones
Carter Jones is nine years old. This is his first story. Once there was a boy, a young boy, who lived with his family in a big valley. He loved his family but he forgot how much they loved him. He wanted to run away and live with his grandparents. He was...
Political Antinomians
Snopes.com [Click on BLUE links for articles, sources, and more information] “There is only one heresy and that is Antinomianism.” John “Rabbi” Duncan In Christian theology, an antinomian is a person who believes the moral law is of no use or...
Was It Really That Wild?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] After getting you to give us a freebie glass of wine, napkin art picked up.. a few months later I got the Art Center to give us a room for a cartooning seminar, I got an easel with a large drawing...
Coincidence Or Business As Usual
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] They’re back in the news again. All three. At the same time. Oliver North soon “to be the NRA’s new president”, Iran, Donald Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Abide by Nuclear Agreement, and Daniel...
The Eyes Have It
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...
The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 "The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in...
Laughter
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] I hate scarce smiles, I love laughing. William Blake annotations to Aphorisms on Man by Johann Caspar Lavater Several have defined man as "an animal which laughs." Henri Bergson, Laughter...
Character
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] You have character. You can be a character. You can create a character, build character or engage in character assassination. There are characters in real life, characters in novels. They can be...
The Art of Empty Spaces
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] On the Paseo de la Reforma, that grand avenue simulating the entrance to an imperial Mexico City that of course no longer exists, there’s a quadrangle of tiny absences, small plazas, where once there...
Monkeying Around: Isak Dinesen, Frida Kahlo, Wislawa Szymborska
[Click on BLUE link for sources and more information] When men by way of their conventions have got themselves into difficulties, then let the monkey in, he will find the unattainable solution. Isak Dinesen, The Monkey I’m old-fashioned and think...