The kingfisher is a solitary bird, that wonts commonly by the water-side, and nestles in hollow banks to be out of reach of the fowlers. One of these birds happen’d to be forraging abroad for her young ones, and in the interim, comes a raging...
The biblical story is that first God created Adam and not Eve: Eve was the second woman that he created. What happened to the first woman? But the very first night, the first mistake - he made only one small bed. It was not a double...
It is very usual that when things do not happen as we would have wished them to, we tend to give ourselves away, to get frustrated and, above all, to look for the guilty party or a solution beyond ourselves. Life is not interested in our...
During the years of my life I have been schooled by our society in many things. Mostly, I learned and never questioned. Surely my teachers, who purported to love me, would not lead me down false paths into dead ends, away from myself into loneliness...
We humans are certainly made our mark on this planet. And yet, if we were asked what we had to show for humanity’s years of evolution, what would we say? Would we say that we’re free of worry and conflict? Would we say we finally understand how to be the...
You know the saying: ‘Live each day as if it were your last.’ It features at least three times in every lifestyle magazine, and has a slot in every self-help manual’s standard repertoire, too. For such a clever line, it makes you none the wiser....
Oscar-Claude Monet is beloved for his series of oil paintings depicting water lilies, serene gardens, and Japanese footbridges. The French painter manipulated light and shadow to portray landscapes in a groundbreaking way, upending the traditional art scene in the late 19th century. In honor of...
ONE RAINY DAY, long ago, an old man was driving his wagon down a country road. The road was filled with pot- holes, so the drive was difficult, and the rain only made it worse. As the wagon plunged into a par- ticularly deep hole, a rear wheel broke off. Calming his...
Related to the aggression resulting from frustration is hostility engendered by envy and jealousy. Both jealousy and envy constitute a special kind of frustration. They are caused by the fact that B has an object which A desires, or is loved by a person whose...
In general everyone ought to hold the conviction, if he seriously reviews the facts both by himself and in the company of another, that not the longest life is the best, but the most efficient. For it is not the man who has played the lyre...
