The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

Good morning. It’s garbage and re-cycle pick-up day in the neighborhood. In front of each house, cavernous green garbage bins ominously rose, guarding each house at the streets’ curbs like silent Easter Island megaliths. Some bins were overflowing. Their huge lids ajar and like open giant mouths vomiting society’s indigestibles. Next to them, loomed occasional [...]

Tragic, tragic, tragic. The events in Littleton, Col. The tragedy is so widespread. We have lost so much of the future. The tragedy lays in those people who had their lives snuffed out–shot and shooters alike– in the mourning families and friends left behind to wonder, in those kids–and they were kids–and their families, who [...]

No walking this morning. It’s my day off. But, I do have a quick thought. I think education, for both teacher and student, should be, as the young would say, a bomb whose shrapnel is supposed to hit both in the heart, head, and spirit–all over. And, when it doesn’t, it’s a dud. Make it [...]

Good morning. And, a happy Easter, Passover, and Id al-Adha to my Christian, Jewish, and Moslem friends. This is a quickie. No walking. It’s my day off. The sun isn’t up yet. A few minutes ago, I was out standing on the darkened patio, sipping a cup of freshly brewed coffee, munching on a piece [...]