Thought for Today

Whoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world saysContinue reading “Thought for Today”

Thought for Today

“Avoid the bad habit of domesticating the prophet of your choice, turning him into a cheerleader for your way of thinking and way of life.  Remember that all the great prophets were courageous and outrageous folks who railed against the powers-that-be, challenged self-satisfied piosity, threatened the prevailing social order, and would find you falling shortContinue reading “Thought for Today”

Mom’s Easy Potato Soup

When I was putting together the list of soup recipes for yesterday’s post I couldn’t find my mom’s potato soup.  Surely I had shared that here.  Well apparently not. So here it is. My mom like to make this on Sunday afternoon and we would have a bowl before going back to church for eveningContinue reading “Mom’s Easy Potato Soup”

Soup Weather’s On It’s Way

That little nip will soon be in the air and we will be wanting to warm up with a nice bowl of soup.   Bob and I love soup.  At our house soup is homemade.  If you’ve never made your own soup it’s not hard.  Here are a few of my favorite soup recipes or ideas fromContinue reading “Soup Weather’s On It’s Way”

Tools for Defeating Fear: Take a Day Off

We live in a world where we have immediate access to pretty much everything that is going 24/7.  We know of everything from mass shootings to natural disasters to celebrity “tweet wars” before the dust has even settled in both the literal and figurative sense.  Our parents and grandparents could not have even imagined such immediate accessContinue reading “Tools for Defeating Fear: Take a Day Off”