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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted. On this trip I think we should notice it, explore it a little, to see if in that strange separation of what man is from what man does we may have some clues as to what…

“…whoever makes haste with his feet misses the way.” (King Solomon) In Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, one of the characters, Emily, dies. Afterwards, Emily stands unseen in the cemetery among her deceased relatives and begs the Stage Manager to let her go back and live one more day. After…

In the red circle of the desert, in the dark and secret place, the prophet discovers the obvious things. I do not say it merely as a sneer, for obvious things are very easily forgotten; and indeed every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. (GK Chesterton) Some things that…

Michelangelo gave us one of his best when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Yet as a sculptor, the statue of David stands as a masterpiece. The marble statue of David stands seventeen feet tall and the shepherd who would turn king as he contemplates his…