Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eyes. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is t...
There are lives that have bread in abundance and yet are starved; with barns and warehouses filled, with shelves and larders laden they are empty and hungry. No man need envy them; their feverish, restless whirl in the dust of publicity is but the se...
Salaries Economists and experts on wages have long tried to discover what factors were influencing peoples salaries. Most of the factors they listed one or two centuries ago are still important today. One of those is education: college graduates have...
Tourism Railroads, ships, buses, and airplanes have made travel easier, faster, and cheaper; and the number of people who can spare the time and the money to take trips has grown enormously. It is not reserved to a lucky few, nowadays, to admire Inca...
Work and Play Our everyday existence is divided into two phases, as distinct as day and night. We call them work and play. We work so many hours a day, and when we have allowed the necessary minimum for such activities as eating and shopping, the res...
The Story of Sissa There was once a victim of overwhelming numbers called King Shirham of India, who, according to the old legend, wanted to reward his grand Prime Minister Sissa for inventing and presenting to him the game of chess. The desire of th...
A Conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his entering a neighbo...
Advice to a Young Man Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you...
Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns; it is a tree, growing very slowlyyou can watch it long and see no movement very silently, unnoticed. It was planted in the world many thousand years ago, a tiny, s...
To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, or what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are...
All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life wont be perfect, well be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist through...
I am me. In the entire world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it. I own eve...
I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally,I am a mother. Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with...
Most of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. The days stretch out in an endless vista, so we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The...
Motherly love by its very nature is unconditional. Mother loves the newborn infant because it is her child, not because the child has fulfilled any specific condition, or lived up to any specific expectation. Unconditional love corresponds in one of...
