I didn’t know whether to be flattered or offended. A while back, I received an e-mail from a preacher asking for my forgiveness. And I wasn’t sure that he had done anything to me that I could forgive him for. Apparently, he had preached some of my messages and had passed them off as his…
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
When Albert Einstein was employed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, his princely salary of $10.000.00 a year made him the highest-paid scientist in the United States and perhaps the world. However, what he made while alive pales compared to what he has made since he died in 1955. In Einstein’s will, he…
The Kingdom is Like a Farmer who Scatters Seed
When I was ten or eleven years old, my parents went insane and bought my sister a horse, it wasn’t long before one horse led to another, and before you knew it, I had been introduced to the concept of farming, at least in the sense that we had a small barn and livestock. When…
Behind Myself
I was walking down the hall at the hospital when I suddenly realized that I was following myself. And I was intrigued. I have been beside myself on different occasions, but I have never been behind myself. Now understand, I wasn’t actually following myself, but it seemed that way. The guy I was following looked…
Alcohol may have been a factor
Have you ever noticed how many accident reports on the news end with the words “alcohol may have been a factor”? Especially in the summertime. The interesting thing is that it doesn’t really seem to concern folks. If every weekend there was an accidental gun death, there would be a national campaign to ban guns. …
Death by Selfie
We are at Beulah Camp this week, and I heard Dr. Andrea Summers comment that more people die from taking selfies than from Shark attacks. And I had to check it out, and she was right. Bizarre.Of course, that led me down a rabbit trail of reading about people taking selfies. Between 2018 and 2021,…
The Peace to Enjoy a Sandwich
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. . . that is the beginning of Rudyard Kipling’s iconic poem “If.” It is also a fair description of an eight-second video that has recently gone viral. The video shows a gentleman calmly eating a sandwich in a square in the French…
Be Careful Little Eyes. . .
The other day, I saw a Facebook meme about the Jewish family who adopted Louis Armstrong when he was seven. Maybe you’ve seen it. It started showing up in 2021.The story was very moving. And very false. When Armstrong was a boy, his mother worked for the Karnofsky family, and they were very kind and generous…
Really?
I guess I never really thought about it. In a recent article I was reading, Frank Jacobs elaborated on the theory of “Mental Map Oversimplification (MMO)” That’s not an actual theory, it’s just a term that Jacobs made up, but that doesn’t make it any less real. Jacobs maintains that because maps are so…
Happy Birthday
It was my birthday the other day, and it was well celebrated on Facebook. As I read through the birthday messages, I marvelled at those who had taken the time to wish me a happy birthday. I heard from folks that I had attended junior high, high school and university with. There were posts from…