quote of the day

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy

quote of the day

“The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death- that is not the greatest thing- but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the Resurrection; not so much that we are to live forever, as that we are to live nobly now because we are to live forever."
-Phillips Brooks

Easter Sunday family portrait.  

Marley has the ball

fast action soccer 

quote of the day

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--ALWAYS.
--Gandhi

food for thought

Here's a little something to make you pause and reflect.

basic training (part 3)

When I was drafted I was 20 years old. I still lived at home with my parents. I worked in the kitchen of the Queen of the Valley hospital in West Covina, Calif. for about $50.00 a week. That kept Dorothy and I in enough cash to go the movies every week. I watched the Steve Allen show every night, then read books until 2:00 am and got up at noon (on my days off). Then it all changed.

During Basic the lights came on every morning at 5:00 and went off every night at 9:00, and it was not stop activity, harrassment, verbal abuse, and physical exertion in between.That was the longest eight weeks of my life. Before I entered the military I expected the army to be like a John Wayne movie, but it was more like a Beetle Bailey cartoon.

basic grunt 

quote of the day

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

quote of the day

The world belongs to the energetic.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tulips are blooming 

and so are the daffodils 

quote of the day

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
-- Sidney J. Harris

This was taken in one of those 25 cent photo booths at the Dallas Airport on my way home from basic training. Feb 1966