Can This Be True?
“The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.” Three sentences that...
Tag: Maxim
Keeping Peace
"An overwhelming show of force often obviates the need to employ it." Alexander Hamilton From Alexander...
Wine Three
"The best way to drink wine is in the way you most enjoy it." Variously attributed. From The Little Book of...
Saving
"Do not save what is left after spending; instead spend what is left after saving." Warren Buffett This...
Wine Two
"Wine is bottled poetry." Robert Louis Stevenson From The Little Book of Wine. We spent a few weeks in...
Disclaimer
"These are not my monkeys and this is not my circus." Polish Proverb And an extremely apropos quotation for...
The Public Good
"The task of government is not to stop selfish striving, which is a hopeless task, but to harness it for the...
Traffic
"When you are in traffic, you are also traffic." In the immortal words of President Obama: "We are the people...
Tradition
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”. Gustav Mahler Christmas and the...
Advice to Hikers
"You are almost there." Last week Peter and his great dog Mojo hiked with me on the Granite Mountain Hotshots...
