The Courage to Start--and to Stop April 9, 1972
It's Life That Matters March 26, 1972
The Fallacy of the Collective Cloak March 19, 1972
On Justifying Our Faults March 12, 1972
To Have Health… February 13, 1972
The Pace… the Purpose… the Principles February 6, 1972
Self-Searching January 23, 1972
A New Crop of Fools Comes On… October 24, 1971
Seeking and Accepting Counsel October 17, 1971
You Are the Window… October 10, 1971
There is a remarkable sentence from George Bernard Shaw: “Better keep yourself clean and bright,” he said. “You are the window through which you must see the world.”1 As we...
Just for Today October 3, 1971
“Lord, for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray,… Just for today.” In time of stress or sorrow, not infrequently we hear someone say, “I don’t know how I can face the...
It Is Easier to Keep Up… September 26, 1971
There are some lessons in the passing seasons worth remembering from time to time, and one such is suggested in a sentence from a respected teacher who said: “It is easier to keep up than to...
When You Reach September September 19, 1971
There is something glorious yet sobering about the swift passing seasons⎯spring, summer, fall⎯and winter follows⎯and there is much we’ve done, much we might have done, much we should have done...
Words as Hard as Cannon Balls September 12, 1971
Sir Walter Scott suggested a subject in a well phrased couplet: “Thoughts from the tongue that slowly part, Glance quick as lightening through the heart.”1 Whether slowly or quickly,...
To Those Who Keep Things Going September 5, 1971
There are many heroic, hardworking people who do much of the work of the world – who keep things going, who hold homes and families together, and somehow do what has to be done. Yet there are many...
If You Shouldn't Do It--Don't! August 29, 1971
What We Say of Each Other August 22, 1971
Pascal said many things worth citing, among them this⎯which we hope is not as true as some of the other things he said: “…I hold it to be a fact,” he said, ” that if all persons...
Think Not, the Husband Gained, That All Is Done August 15, 1971
There is ever and always this matter of marriage⎯a subject that suggests quoting an old couplet: “…think not, the husband gained, that all is done: Think not the wife gained, that all is done;...
Reliable Once in a While August 8, 1971
There is a thought from Confucius that touches upon the point of many personal and public problems. “A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless,” he said. In this there is much of...
Arguing! Arguing! August 1, 1971
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing⎯the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves...