by sworel | Nov 17, 2014 | 2014, Musings
If you look up “chivalry” in the dictionary, you will find definitions that highlight the qualities idealized by knighthood. You will see things listed like bravery, courtesy, honor and gallantry. And boy does our society need more of all that! A while back I saw an...
by sworel | Nov 10, 2014 | 2014, Musings
Our society has ongoing dialogs about death and dying. Earlier this year there was a flurry of articles about the ways and means that various states execute prisoners on death row. Another article highlighted the changing dress code associated with death and dying. It...
by sworel | Oct 20, 2014 | 2014, Musings
It was well past 3:00 am the other morning when my body finally allowed me to trudge off to sleep. I had been having another “tete-a-tete” with some real pain, the kind that hurts. “It just isn’t fair” slides so easily off my tongue. This mess has been going on for...
by sworel | Oct 20, 2014 | 2014, Musings
My first encounter with a “heads up display” happened in an airplane simulator. A friend and I used to go ”fly” navy jets for fun. In order to win the aerial battle, you had to master the heads up display. And so I have been watching with some fascination at all the...
by sworel | Oct 13, 2014 | 2014, Musings
We’d been sitting in a restaurant for 2 or 3 hours, just catching up on the highs and lows in each other’s lives, when all of a sudden, my single and suffering friend blurted out at me, “This business of Christian liberty is the pits!” Apparently, she had been...
by sworel | Oct 7, 2014 | 2014, Musings
A while back, I visited a site that offered creative thinking puzzles. One of them was called “The Drop the Block Problem.” It showed a stick figured man holding a block of wood and it asked the question, “What will happen to the piece of wood when the person lets go...
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