My friend Harvey Schultz has written some comments about this fine poem at Something To Think About
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By Douglas Malloch
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley - but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If [...]
My great friend, Harvey Schultz, has a new blog up and going at Something To Think About. Some quotes from his first actual post:
I think I understand what the apostle Paul meant in First Corinthians chapter 14 when he over and over told them to edify and encourage each other, and then his conclusion in [...]
I remember as a young boy reading a story about a prince that wanted to eat the most perfect food. Participants, one by one, tried to present their product as the best food. One presented him with an exquisite meat dish, another a fine desert; another said; “My ice-cream is surely the most perfect food.” [...]
Earlier this year my daughter and I went white water rafting down a river near Salida, Colorado and I could not help but to compare the river to our lives. Sometimes it was smooth and quiet. Other times it narrowed or was shallow and became swift and unpredictable. Yet other times it had large rocks [...]
A mother is awakened by her wet, dirty, and hungry baby at two o’clock in the morning. She doesn’t feel like getting up, but the crying will not stop until she takes care of his needs. So she gets up, cleans and dresses and feeds him. She holds and rocks little Jerry until he goes [...]
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) once said, ” A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” I agree with that statement for several reasons. I personally am in favor of continuing our learning and education even at an older age. I am excited when I hear [...]
We get up by the clock, go to work by the clock, eat by the clock, come home and go to bed by the clock. We can even take classes on how to make the best use of our time.
Because of our dependence on time, one of the results is that we become impatient [...]
In an emergency room when a person with a scratch is asked to wait while the doctors and nurses see to others with more serous injuries or critical health problems, this is the right thing to do. We would not want to see seriously hurt or badly sick folks have to wait while they treat [...]
Mark Evans tells a story about Alicia Montemayor from Laredo, Texas. At age 74 she had to quit her job to take care of her husband. With time on her hands she started painting “to amuse myself” she said, and at 82 she was still “amusing herself” and had become a very successful artist. To [...]
A young man lived on a farm with his family whose land was loaded with grass burrs. They lived next to a man that had a large farm that was beautifully kept up and did not have any grass burrs. As a result the young man was envious of his neighbors farm. One day the [...]
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