Category Archives: WFW

I took an astronomy course at Vanderbilt more than fifty years ago; an enjoyable and thought-provoking course which informs the following: Something of indeterminately large size, a singularity, may have exploded, or unimaginably expanded, billions of years ago, ejecting material … Continue reading →

“The past shows unvaryingly that when a people’s freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism. If freedom is … Continue reading →

In this time when circumstance and scientism endeavors to prevail over definition and faith; praise for what you do. For about six years now, beneath my name and contact information for every email sent is the acronym HUMSFOR: humility, understanding, mercy, selflessness, forgiveness, obedience, … Continue reading →

Bring home Epiphyllum oxypetalum, the magnificent night-blooming cereus, but expect no one to say nice things about your new plant . . . because they won’t. Then be patient. Be very patient. Two to three to five years patient. The … Continue reading →

God, I cannot make it through this day without You; yet I know before my feet hit the floor this morning that I will turn my back on You today. How can You love such a fraud?

A few words about TE Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom: Read the book. Linger over chapter three; only six pages. Better still would be to read that chapter again and again until you’re sated in Lawrence’s narrative. But at last … Continue reading →

Sometimes on warm, clear, moonless nights I would gaze up at the stars while lying in our front yard; wondering what was that hazy stripe which looked like a far off cloud across the roof of the sky. At nine I … Continue reading →

Thirty years ago I bought a bird seed feeder at our local hardware store. One feeder eventually became many, meaning that in my yard today birds can find feeders holding black oil sunflower seed and hulled chips, nyjer seed, hulled peanuts, suet, … Continue reading →

Sometimes adherence to grammatical rules fails in the attempt to convey a particularly lofty exuberance of the senses. So I will not apologize, nor repent for what follows: The most delicious-est thing I’ve ever eaten is a cookie my wife makes which … Continue reading →