Handicaps
Handicaps Genius knows no handicap through physical ills. Lord Byron had a club foot. Robert Louis Stevenson and John Keats had tuberculosis. Charles Steinmetz and Alexander Pope were hunchbacks....
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Aging A friend once gave a copy of the following prayer to the captain of the majestic Q.E.II. He framed ii and often showed it to visitors. It reads like this: “Lord, thou knowest that I am growing...
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Why Pain ? In the apple-growing state of Maine, U.S.A., I was once visiting a farmer friend and saw an apple tree so loaded down with fruit that the branches had to be propped up to keep them from...
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Tomorrow He was going to be all that a mortal should be – tomorrow. No one would be better than he – tomorrow. Each morning he stacked the letters he’d write – tomorrow. It was too bad, indeed; he was...
View ArticleTrustworthiness
Trustworthiness Horror gripped the heart of a World War I soldier as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing over his head the soldier asked his...
View ArticleDeeply Rooted
Deeply Rooted A writer and a farmer were talking one day in a local café about the farmer’s soybean and corn crops. Rain had been abundant in recent weeks, and the results were evident. The soybeans...
View ArticleBusy All Day Doing Nothing!
Busy All Day doing nothing I decide to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys...
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A Blue Rose Having four visiting family members, my wife was very busy, so I offered to go to the store for her to get some needed items, which included light bulbs, paper towels, trash bags, detergent...
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Little Things Lisa Beamer on Good Morning America, after her husband had died said that it was the little things that she misses most about Todd, such as hearing the garage door open as he came home,...
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A man was looking at all the different animals behind the circus tent. As he was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a...
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