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If Ever There Was A Reason To Be Charitable, THIS IS IT ? A ?MUST READ?
2009-04-01 03:21:00 “I wept because I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Where’s Jackie?“, my fellow veteran asked the owner of one of my few “safe places” (a term any fellow veteran who suffers from combat-related PTSD, a.k.a.,... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Transitions
2007-07-08 01:43:00 I'm reading this wonderful book, Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, by William Bridges, Ph.D. He's one of the seminal people in the field. I know that I don't deal well with change and because my son will start a four-year college in January, and I want to help him with his adjustment, I've decided that I need to improve my skills in this area.I will discuss this book more in the future, but for today, I just want to quote a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that Bridges quotes in his book. Longfellow evidently wrote it when he went back for a visit to his hometown of Portland, Maine.ChangedFrom the outskirts of the town,Where of old the mile-stone stood,Now a stranger, looking down,I behold the shadowy crownOf the dark and haunted wood.It is changed, or am I changed?Ah! The oaks are fresh and green,But the friends with whom I rangedThrough their thickets are estrangedBy the years that intervene.Bright as ever flows the sea,Bright as ever shines the sun,But alas! ... |
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