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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” –Helen Keller I watch two little boys ride their bikes down the hill in front of my house. One of them is older, perhaps eight years old, and the other looks to be six. The older boy rides down the hill fearlessly…

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…