“A grass-blade’s no easier to make than an oak.” -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891) Don’t think that I’ve ever thought about it that way. It does make me think differently if I stop and contemplate some of the simpler things in life as much as I do things that seem larger and … Read more

I’ve been pondering this yesterday morning and this morning, too. Maybe that’s an indication that others need to chew on it, too. I don’t know. “The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where … Read more

“In the faces of men and women I see God.” – Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

“None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody. bent down and helped us.” — Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice I am not sure that Marshall was thinking of Him, but maybe he was.