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In his essay on old age, Cicero has Cato the Elder lecture on the advantages of growing old. Reading it, you would think that the best is yet to come. Not so, however, for Cicero. His involvement in Roman politics resulted in him fleeing for his life from Mark Antony’s henchmen. When they caught up with him, they severed his hands and head, and Antony … Continue reading Old Age (by Joe Nagy)
In 1864, during the height of the Civil War, a Union soldier named William McCarter found himself dying of dysentery in a crowded military hospital. The man who nursed him back to health—who fed him, cleaned him, and sat with him through the worst nights, was a Confederate prisoner of war. Mercy knows no enemy. Two men who, by every measure of their time, were … Continue reading Who Would Ever Have Thought?
Woodrow Wilson observed, “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.” I had an opportunity to examine my conscience a number of years ago on a trip to Bloomington, Indiana to visit Marsha’s parents. It was there I was introduced to a Yorkshire terrier named Dusty. Dusty was a straightforward … Continue reading Living in Your Own Skin
To hear the music in today’s post, please go to the Just A Thought website. PLEASE CLICK HERE In life, sometimes, we tumble into a crevasse, deep enough, dark enough, dangerous enough, to reorder our priorities and change how we live the rest of our lives. My tumble taught me three things about crevasses: They’re almost impossible to avoid, They’re terrifyingly consuming, They’re virtually impossible … Continue reading The Great Crevasse
We have included Mark Pearson’s music in this post. Please click on the link above in your email, or Click Here A while back I introduced you to Mark Pearson, a fraternity brother of mine. In his sixty years as a singer and songwriter he does in music what I’ve attempted to do in words. As a member of the folk group The Brothers Four, … Continue reading The Way of Everything