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Reunions offer us the chance to look back
“The only true guardian of peace lies within: a sense of concern and responsibility for your own future and an altruistic concern for the well-being ...
Bob Vilt, Author at Austin Daily Herald - Page 6 of 7
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Film festival highlights stories of life
“We have, in short, the right to ask — but never to insist or blithely assume — that God bless America.” — Madeline Albright
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, May 28, 2011 5:00 pm
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The discoveries of a content pooch
I spend most of my week with Mello who really doesn’t have much to say either, unless you count barking.
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, May 21, 2011 5:00 pm
Community
Mother Nature allows for work on the house
“Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.” — Voltaire
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:00 pm
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Thoughts after the death of bin Laden
“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” — Solomon Short
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, May 7, 2011 5:00 pm
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Mello takes a romp through the muddy ditch less traveled
“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures are gone. It ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, April 30, 2011 5:00 pm
Community
Books on a moral life
“In some general ironic way we know that white-collar crime done by Americans of the most privileged backgrounds causes much more suffering, person by person, ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:00 pm
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History’s music pulls at the soul
Blues is the way of talking, You don’t sing to feel better, You sing ‘cause That’s a way of understanding life.” August Wilson
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, April 16, 2011 5:00 pm
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Presentation fails to leave impression
“We can have a democratic society or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.” — Louis ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, April 9, 2011 5:00 pm
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Putting to paper the words that need to be said
“The impulse of every writer is to keep out of politics.” — George Orwell
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, March 26, 2011 5:00 pm
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Those books we love to read
The toxic pattern of ‘English Only’ that the United States, particularly our educational systems, has followed is as brutal as gladiatorial combat.” — Gary Holthaus
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:30 pm
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Meeting Mailer
“The soul virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.” — Norman Mailer
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:00 pm
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Watching me type
“The terrible thing about public schools is they take young children who are natural poets and story writers and have them read literature and then ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, March 5, 2011 5:00 pm
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Trying to cope with depression
“Depression really does feel like something hounding and snapping at you. It’s as though you’ve been set upon by something vicious you can’t see.” — ...
by Bob Vilt, Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:00 pm
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The cost of losing a book
“The soul virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.” — Norman Mailer