[21] Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? [22] So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him? [...]
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but contributor Linda seems to think so, drawing once again on her former life with parents and siblings. And on her memory, which just may have a few holes in it. Shakespeare was a black blur thrown furiously across the front yard almost into the street. Actually [...]
The following is a guest essay by daughter Linda, now somewhat older than she was on this particular fishing trip. I was chilled lying on the bottom of the boat, rocking gently. I stared up into the fading light and watched the bottoms of the clouds brushed with gold. I felt happy, it was true. [...]
Using a mouse to navigate my computer screen has become second nature in spite of the fact that using the keyboard is often a better option. Several months ago I acquired a pen tablet to replace the mouse in my life in the hope that using the pen-shaped stylus would be an easier way to [...]
Credit & Copyright: Ole Christian Salomonsen Now, I ask you, “Ain’t that grand?” This picture interests me because it triggers memories (here I go again) of time spent in Norway in the sixties as well as a glimpse we had of the aurora from our back yard in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one fall evening at [...]
The quote below appeared on Slashdot (News for nerds, stuff that matters). It appears that another nail on the coffin of film photography is being hammered down with the last stroke in December of this year. Wired’s Gadget Lab picked up a wistful story from the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle on the processing of the last [...]
As in, “Once in a … ,” meaning a rare event. You no doubt remember that a Blue Moon is the second occurrence of a full moon during a calendar month. It happens every 2-1/2 years, or so. We got a beautiful view of this year’s Blue Moon last night, on New Year’s Eve. The [...]
If you happen to have your bugle handy and have a good lip, take a look at what wiki/bugle has to say, then give your favorite call a good riff. (You can read music, can you not?) Many of the familiar calls have had words made up to fit the tune. For example, the US [...]
Il Silenzio (The Silence) is a more formal, concert trumpet version of Taps, written in 1965 by Italian trumpeter Nino Rosso. One of our choir members asked to play it as a Veterans Day observance in church yesterday morning. From a bulletin insert I learned the story behind “Taps.” There is no attribution for the [...]
In this insane world, one yearns for sane words. Many years ago I found these helpful words of wisdom, and I made a now-fading copy (typed on a real typewriter) and stuck it in my Bible. They are words from a little devotional book that I first discovered in 1984, according to the date inside [...]
