Austin
Mello and Fred say goodbye
It’s difficult to consider this to be my last column for the Herald. I worry some about Mello and Fred not finding their names in ...
Bob Vilt, Author at Austin Daily Herald
Austin
Christmas closes for another year
“One lives all one’s life under constant tension until it is time to go.” Albert Einstein
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, December 29, 2012 5:10 pm
Austin
What is the enemy and what was our role?
I sat there, one of 12 soldiers taking an International Relations course offered at Schofield Barracks.
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:28 pm
Austin
It was Mello, with the grinder, on the couch
“The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, December 15, 2012 4:10 pm
Austin
Refocusing energy on pressing issues
A cat licking herself solves most of the problems of infection: We wash too much and finally it kills us. WCW
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, December 8, 2012 5:15 pm
Austin
Winter time with the dogs
“Schools can be the place where children learn to think critically, cooperate, and develop into insightful, creative, compassionate, and wise citizens able to participate in ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, December 1, 2012 4:40 pm
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School days: Comparing then and now
I’m still interested in education except now I believe it’s too complex, at least for me.
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, November 24, 2012 4:34 pm
Austin
Words from a friend
David Toresdahl graduated from Austin High School sometime in the late 50s, a few years ahead of our class during Ray Wescott’s reign. I always ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, November 17, 2012 6:25 pm
Austin
Confronting the dark of the world around us
“A monk asked his teacher, ‘What is my self?’ The teacher answered, ‘There is something deeply hidden within your self, and you must become acquainted ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, November 10, 2012 5:30 pm
Austin
Craving attention and long walks
“People have a way of telling you what they think you wanna hear — anytime I don’t know something and I ask somebody, I usually ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, November 3, 2012 6:02 pm
Austin
The ballad of green hair, remaking myself
“Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves” — Albert Camus, French novelist
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, October 27, 2012 4:46 pm
Austin
Spending some time with the family pets
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. “Edmund Burke
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:39 pm
Austin
“There is no way to conceptualize truth.” — Dainin Katagiri
“There is no way to conceptualize truth.” — Dainin Katagiri
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, October 13, 2012 4:27 pm
Austin
A beautiful day and things to keep you busy
“An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thence forward, have at least one place in the world in which it is ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, October 6, 2012 4:16 pm
Austin
Keeping busy in retirement
“Apre’s nous le de’luge” is the principle of a man who is related to no order but that of his own benefit. It is the ...