A few tidbits of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years. 1. There are NO excuses. If the photographer or illustrator screwed up the image, YOU’RE the one who picked them. If the printer screws up the print job, YOU’RE the one who prepared it and sent it to them. If the client doesn’t understand [...]

The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening [...]

Teachers will tell you the laziest boy in the class is the one who works hardest in the end. They mean this. If you give two boys, say, a proposition in geometry to do, the one who is prepared to take trouble will try to understand it. The lazy boy will try to learn it [...]

A bad man, happy, is a man without the least inkling that his actions do not ‘answer’, that they are not in accord with the laws of the universe. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up [...]

I can relate to this entry at inward/outward. (a good site for daily inspiration and encouragement). “MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that [...]

Hi. That’s me, circa 1964 (I think). Reminds me of a car with the doors open. It’s been said that I’ve grown into my ears.