When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins
Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.
What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?
Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.
Happy endings come in different packages
With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift. . You are the fifth season.
I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.
Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.