I ran across this story some years ago while reading The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett. The story is titled The Heedless Man at the Gates of Paradise. Heedlessness is defined as carelessness; thoughtless; unmindful; inconsiderate; oblivious. How many of us are guilty of this, if not constantly, at […]

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on under water, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and […]

Imagine this scenario. It’s May 1944. You’re a member of an allied air force reconnaissance squadron. You’ve been ordered to pilot a small plane over the English Channel into France to take photos of the German defensive positions prior to the D-Day invasion. You’ve completed that part of the mission […]

Over the past years of creating this weekly missive, I have on several occasions shared with you verses crafted by Edgar A. Guest. You may recall that Guest (1881-1959) began his illustrious career in 1895 at the age of fourteen when his work first appeared the Detroit Free Press. His […]