Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Satchel Paige Bret Harte wrote, ‘We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.” The first time I read this I thought it was extraordinarily cynical. Of course, no one lives…

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. John Lilly One person will look at this photo and focus on the bent post in the wrought iron gate, while another will focus on the beautiful colors of the tree. Is it a beautiful photo or…

Definition of integrity – the quality of being honest and having strong moral principals. Oxford Dictionaries Integrity sounds like a high – minded and pretentious ideal. Something many may aspire to and few achieve Maybe not, maybe it can be demonstrated in something as easily achieved as following the rules in sports. For example, my…

I’ve always liked things that got better with age. Ralph Lauren    The folding bridge table in the photo is around eighty years old. I’ve owned it for over 20 years. During that time, it has served as an additional serving table, lunch table or a fire screen. The reason I have it is that…

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. Margaret Atwood I just finished reading, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. I read it because I decided I should understand the true significance of women protesting in red capes and white bonnets. I can tell you that I feel fortunate Ms. Atwood did…

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and appear to be what we wish to be —and thus the world is composed of actors. Francois La Rochefoucauld I am not sure if we all appear what we wish to be. I think some of us appear as what we are, unable to…

If we don’t care about our past, we cannot hope for the future … Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis The Eisenhower Chapel has built in 1941 and was completed  just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. 0ne of four nondenominational military chapels built on the former Lowry Air Force Base, it is listed on the National Register…

When spying a dragonfly dancing on air, your guardian angle is hovering near. Richard Doyle In Native America,  the dragonfly is often viewed as the soul or spirit of a deceased love one who has come back to see them. I was drawn to a little, silver, dragonfly, sculpture while shopping with a friend. She…

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero I recently came across the French word, bibliotheque (library). In a home, a library is not the same as shelves of books. One might see shelves as simply a place to store books. They become a library when they reflect who…