I’m looking at two fruit bowls on the table as I write this; one is full of apples, one is full of bananas. By comparing two objects we often recognize details in both that would otherwise be missed. Today there are two legal quantities and two gift quantities I wish […]
I remember when I was struck by the idea that I am older now than my parents are in all my memories. Thinking about how irritated I would get at some of their mistakes, and looking at it from the point of view of my current life experience, I was […]
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; (Psalms 1:1) I have a friend who raises and shows American singer canaries as a hobby. He has over 300 birds at any time, […]
“It all began when your uncle was eight and I was four,” Mother started. “We had been at a farmers’ market and they were selling livestock. Daddy went to look at the cows and we wandered to the smaller shed where they sold chickens and the like. There in the […]
