Put Your Talents to Use "Use what talents you possess; the woods would he silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke I took six years of piano lessons, but I still cannot play well. When an occasion creeps up, I have to practice before I can play anything-and even then my timing is usually off. My false pride prevents me from playing in front of other unless I am pressured into it. Lately, though, I have been thinking that the folks in the nursi
Dream a Little Dream "Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare." - H. F. Hedge We've all experienced the fun of waking up out of a goofy, complicated, out-of-this-world dream. We quickly jot it down or describe it to a loved one before we forget it. Such dreams can provide the fodder for great novels, plays
The Ugly Green Thing "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb I bought "the ugly green thing" at a rummage sale for 50 cents in the early '90s. It looked like a pea-green house that some kid made out of plaster at Brownie Camp. I presented it to my brother Joe foe his birthday. Five weeks later, he sent it to me for my birthday. Six months later, I hid it in the linen closet in his Kentucky hom