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Mello and Fred say goodbye
It’s difficult to consider this to be my last column for the Herald. I worry some about Mello ...
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Christmas closes for another year
“One lives all one’s life under constant tension until it is time to go.” Albert Einstein
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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.
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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 ...
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Winter time with the dogs
“Schools can be the place where children learn to think critically, cooperate, and develop into insightful, creative, compassionate, ...
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Words from a friend
David Toresdahl graduated from Austin High School sometime in the late 50s, a few years ahead of our ...
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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 ...
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Craving attention and long walks
“People have a way of telling you what they think you wanna hear — anytime I don’t know ...
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The ballad of green hair, remaking myself
“Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves” — Albert Camus, French novelist
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Spending some time with the family pets
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. “Edmund Burke
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Keeping busy in retirement
“Apre’s nous le de’luge” is the principle of a man who is related to no order but that ...
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Enjoying time with books and the weather
“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point, only then can he ...
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Thinking of times and people gone by
“The longer we live, the more complex life becomes, the vaster seems its possibilities and limitations, and the ...
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Reunion off without a hitch
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is ...
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Memories of Myrtle; navigating Austin
But when all you do comes out of nothingness, then you have everything….. That is what we mean ...