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Cover of Encore Magazine, picked up April 4, 2013, at breakfast book club. At the age of 12, poet George Leslie Norris (1921-2006) says walls began to speak to him and his life as a writer was born! As he tells it, “I put my finger on the wall and […] Seen on the door exiting the exam room at Michiana Hematology and Oncology… The African Proverb, “When you pray, move your feet,” has often been used to encourage Christians, or other people of faith, to take appropriate actions in the world. In fact, faith is intended to guide our choices in ways that […] I am not preoccupied with death, but it would be true to say that I have a hyper sensitivity to mortality, meaning to the passing from the current. The reality is that everything changes form, but it does not mean an end to us, it means a new beginning: “…the caterpillar has the […] Nature lets you create a cocoon of silence inside. In an interesting way, the “sounds” of nature are part of what I experience as “silence.” Today I am listening to the wind. I admit that I love the sound. I am sure there would be an upper limit, meaning I am not […] “If you have a penny and I have a penny and we exchange pennies, you still have one cent and I still have one cent. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, you now have two ideas and I now have two ideas.” – Unknown […] This past Saturday morning I went to a Peace River Center for Writers at Edison State College. I met another writer there, Irwin Schinkel. We had a phone conversation this morning and he asked me to answer what I want my book/s to lead to. Did I want consulting jobs, to be hired as a […] There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Several years ago, I wrapped up my two year-old grandson, Adam, and carried him outside to see an amazing starry sky. As he looked up into […] The house is quiet and this morning I find myself gratefully curled up with a book. Physically confined to a love seat, my legs wind themselves beneath me willingly. After the bustle of some family visiting, today I love hearing only my own thoughts sprinkled into the gentle sounds of wind, the distant […] As I was riding my bike around Saint James City, here on Pine Island, in South Florida, the sky was so blue it almost hurt my eyes. I started thinking about the idea that what we see is not “real” but there is a reason why things appear the way they do. For […] A long time ago (1930’s), in a land far, far away (radio), a crime-fighting vigilante with supernatural abilities entertained us so profoundly that “The Shadow” made its way from radio to comic books, television, movies, and video games. Many of us are familiar with Orson Welles voice booming “Who knows what evil lurks […] |
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