I Think I’m a Coffee Snob – Part II
If you missed Part I of this earthshaking discussion, click here As I mentioned in Part I, I do not have the best and latest…
If you missed Part I of this earthshaking discussion, click here As I mentioned in Part I, I do not have the best and latest…
“There is so much frustration in the world because we have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate. We have worshipped the god of pleasure only to discover that thrills play out and sensations are short-lived. We have bowed before the god of money only to learn that there are such things as love and friendship that money cannot buy and that in a world of possible depressions, stock market crashes, and bad business investments, money is a rather uncertain deity. These transitory gods are not able to save us or bring happiness to the human heart.
When we moved everything from the shop on North Main, we pulled items that would help bring John’s meeting space to our house, and this corner became the place. Here are his books, his first typewriter which he bought when he was in the army. He spent his whole paycheck on it and so he couldn’t go out with his friends but had to stay home and learn how to type.
I wrote that post title, and thought to myself, I think John has written something about that. And he did. It is a page from Keeping First Things First, and it describes how we can change for better or for worse, and we can grow old or we can simply grow.
Encore MLK Day Forum at B&N by strong and talented women living lives inspired by the spirit and strength of Martin Luther King, Jr. January 16, 2019