The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

You know, somewhere inside each of us, buried deep beneath every day concerns, is a dream. Every now and then it surfaces to energize our spirit like nothing else can and then sinks back down beneath the surface. Our dream has a promise that we all too often wave off as crazy and impractical. And [...]

I was walking in the cool autumn air this morning, and I couldn’t get an image out of my mind. Thursday morning I was walking down the hall heading for class. Approaching me was a female student, books in hand, heading for class, dressed in black from head to toe, her black boots reached to [...]

Well, I guess the segments of the interview by student which I shared with you weren’t all the parts he used. I received some more of the transcript yesterday. And, I would like to share wit you what I just received: “I wish I could be like you someday.” “Wish for someone you can be.” [...]

Three students once came to the famous rabbi, Bal Shem Tov, and he asked them, “What would you do if you knew you would die in six months” The first student said, “I would go to Jerusalem to the Wailing Wall and pray continuously.” The second one said, “No. The journey would waste valuable time. [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I receive a telephone call from a student attending a western university whom I didn’t know. He introduced himself and told me that he had an assignment to write a paper for his teaching in higher education class based on an interview with a college professor. He didn’t want to [...]