Thank you music
Thank you to all the poets, singers, artists
All the creative minds ever imagined and brought to past
Thank you Picasso, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo…
Thank you Plato, Socrates, Aristotle….
Thank you Sparta and Athens
The 300 warriors at Thermoplyae
Thank you to Shelley and her Frankenstein
Thank you Shakespeare and his Hamlet
Thank you Emily Dickinson
Thank you Jane Austen
Thank [...]
A little over a year ago I flew home to Anchorage, Alaska from completing cancer treatment in Salt Lake City. I was overly thin, exhausted, my voice was hoarse, my mouth inflamed and sore, and I still received most of my nutrition through a tube in my stomach. I was a wreck.
Yet I was thrilled [...]
The ugly winds of the Yes on Prop 8 backlash bring to mind an identifying principle of Christian thought and life:
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use, and persecute you;” Matthew 5:12
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,…A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the [...]
For as long as I can remember, I have felt strongly that my life is not simply my own. Certainly my upbringing as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had much to do with that. I was taught and have come to know that their is a God, that His [...]
When things are tense, news is stressful, and life is just getting way too serious; my quiet, fairly unexpressive son stabs the sky with both fists, his arms held high in a salute to futility and says, “Its the End of the Universe!” Immediately, the gathered family is swept up in a wave of relieved [...]
Thank you to everyone who supported defining marriage in California as a relationship between a man and a woman. I hate linking to the L.A. Times but here is the news: 52% of Californians vote to pass Prop 8.
There was a lot more at stake here then the rights of any two people to marry. [...]