Old Bones 08/10/2018 "I know it's just old bones over there, but those old bones are special to us," my Uncle BF observed from his favorite rocking chair. The family had gathered, as it has for the better part of a century, at our property in Pitkin, Louisiana. It's the place where my great great grandparents literally built the house with their own hands so many years earlier, and the place which every generation of our family has maintained and preserved ever since. Today, the house and the surrounding acreage is
"I know it's just old bones over there, but those old bones are special to us," my Uncle BF observed from his favorite rocking chair. The family had gathered, as it has for the better part of a century, at our property in Pitkin, Louisiana. It's the place where my great great grandparents literally built the house with their own hands so many years earlier, and the place which every generation of our family has maintained and preserved ever since. Today, the house and the surrounding acreage is
"A Sinner With A Pen" 07/18/2018 The artwork accompanying today's deliberations comes from but one section of Raphael's painting, "School of Athens," which adorns one of the rooms in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. Painted between 1509 and 1511, the full fresco represents Philosophy itself, with figures of Plato and Aristotle walking through an archway into a gathering of classical philosophers which include Socrates, Epicurus, Pythagorus, Heraclitus, and more. Of interest is the fact that the central figure of Aristotle,
The artwork accompanying today's deliberations comes from but one section of Raphael's painting, "School of Athens," which adorns one of the rooms in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. Painted between 1509 and 1511, the full fresco represents Philosophy itself, with figures of Plato and Aristotle walking through an archway into a gathering of classical philosophers which include Socrates, Epicurus, Pythagorus, Heraclitus, and more. Of interest is the fact that the central figure of Aristotle,
On Decorum and Entitlement 07/12/2018 The point was driven home repeatedly, while in combat training, that one should leave no trace whatsoever of one's tracks. If necessary to set up camp for awhile, the area should look pristine enough upon our departure that Euell Gibbons himself would be content to relax and chew on a pinecone in the area, oblivious to the fact that a bunch of us had been there only a short time earlier. In a tactical sense, such an approach was necessary to forestall enemy forces from discerning our
The point was driven home repeatedly, while in combat training, that one should leave no trace whatsoever of one's tracks. If necessary to set up camp for awhile, the area should look pristine enough upon our departure that Euell Gibbons himself would be content to relax and chew on a pinecone in the area, oblivious to the fact that a bunch of us had been there only a short time earlier. In a tactical sense, such an approach was necessary to forestall enemy forces from discerning our
