Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2019 From a poem by American poet, Walt Whitman:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They […]
Posted October 31, 2018 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 October 2018 The saying, “May all your troubles be little ones,” is thought to have originated as an Irish Quotation. Little problems, of course, have a way of turning into bigger problems. The old saying, “For want of a nail, a shoe was lost, and for want of a shoe the kingdom was lost” expresses the same […]
Posted March 31, 2017 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2017 In 1928 John A. Shedd published a collection of sayings (“Salt from My Attic”) that included the following saying, “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” You may also be familiar with the saying, “Any port in a storm.” The recently recovered audio tapes from the El […]
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