Being Present
In recent weeks, I’ve received a couple of different articles, forwarded to me on email by my life-long friend, Barbara Bennett, who lives in St. Louis. Both of these pieces I’ve found so important, I’m passing them along in my weekly blog. This week’s offering is by novelist, Jonathan Safran, adapted from the 2013 commencement address he delivered at Middlebury …
Read MoreThree (Short) Human Interest Stories
Prodigious pianist, teenager Micah McLaurin, is being celebrated in local classical music circles these days, having been awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In recent years Micah has competed successfully in prominent international piano competitions and performed with various symphonies world-wide, including the Cleveland Orchestra, where he played the famously difficult Chopin Concerto No. …
Read MoreTraining or Education?
The current “graduation season”–from my grandson, Shepard Cadwell’s 4-year-old kindergarten “graduation” in Denver, Colorado, to a nation of high schools, colleges, universities and professional schools–reminds me of two different articles that have recently come my way. The first was an op-ed piece in the Post and Courier (May 21) by University of Maryland economist, Peter Morici. He’s the little guy …
Read MoreWhere Were You When . . .?
The “cover story” of the April 17 issue of the Christian Century reminded me of where and when I first read Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” It was the summer of 1963–fifty years ago; I had just finished my sophomore year in college–and I had driven a girl I “had the hots” for to where her parents …
Read MoreBalanced Living by Dr. Knight
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