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On the Virtues of Wisdom (or Age)
Getting old is not a choice. I suspect all of us past a certain age would chose to do so, rather than the obvious alternative. Youngsters (those under fifty) really don’t think about it very much. Those in their nineties are grateful they can move. Some, like Pablo Picasso I once read, stayed active until […]
Remembering Duke (and Alabama Football)
January 1, 2011
[written early Sept., 2010 before Alabama-Duke game of Sept. 18, 2010] Reading Mark Hughes Cobb’s piece in the Sept. 12 Tuscaloosa News about the Tide’s next game with Duke, in Durham, North Carolina, brought back memories of cool weekends in the fall of 1960 when I went to my first Duke football games as a […]
Managua Diary, 2004
February 7, 2010
Five days in Managua, searching for the origins of truth and justice and human rights in the Americas.
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Psalm 121:1-2 September 11, 2026“A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.”
July 2, 2012
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