Here comes the dawn. I’ll go out walking later. I was just sitting at my fish pond, feeling, slowly sipping a cup of hot, freshly brewed coffee, silently listening to the music of the waterfalls. You know, there’s something empowering and inspiring about the silence of the dawn. For me, it’s the stillness that [...]
Can’t sleep. Susan’s on my mind. She’s hurting. Don’t want to go to China and leave my “angel in disguise.” Struggling not to be a hypocrite and live the Johnny Mercer’s lyrics sung by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters in 1945: ”You’ve got to accentuate the positive; eliminate the negative; And latch on to [...]
Where was I? My eyes are getting bloodshot from proofing the pages for Random Thoughts, IV on top of everything else as the semester-ending stuff piles up and I prepare to head out for a month-long teaching gig in China. As I read my reflections from a decade ago, I see that I saw then as [...]
