What are the signs of love? When you love someone you see nothing wrong in them. Even if you see a fault in them, you justify it in some way saying, “Everyone does that; it is normal.” You think you have not done enough for them and the more you do, the more you want to do for them. They are always on your mind. Ordinary things become
As Congressional Republicans and Big Oil allies allies in Washington try to resuscitate the massive Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, people on the frontlines have opened a new campaign to stop the massive $7 billion project. In Texas, landowners are locking arms to fight would-be pipeline builder TransCanada over eminent domain cases that may determine where the 1700-mile project will be built.
On Friday, protesters gathered in Paris, TX, and in Austin to voice their support for Lamar County farm manager Julia Trigg Crawford, who runs a 600-acre farms that grows corn, soybeans and wheat along the Red River near Paris, TX. More than 50 protesters traveled from nearby counties to wave flags and signs on the Lamar County courthouse steps, shouting slogans like “Don’t mess with Texas” and “This is what democracy looks like.”
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The raucous protest included an unusual mix of tea party supporters, independents, Democrats, Republicans and even Occupy Dallas protesters. They were all there to support Crawford’s eminent domain court fight with TransCanada, which wants to run the Keystone XL pipeline through her property.
David Daniel, a landowner near Winnsboro, TX, has been fighting TransCanada for four years over their plans to run the pipeline though his wooded, spring-fed land near Winnsboro,
I grew up Christian. I believed in Jesus as a miracle worker, a master teacher, a son of God. I treasured his three messages: whatever works you see me do, you can do as well, and even more; the kingdom of Heaven is all around you; whatever you do for each other, you do for God. It was pretty
In professional football, one “old school” device still settles arguments about the location of the ball.
This is the time of the year of preaching, that I usually am more cognizant of the time in the delivery of my homily. Chances are that as we preach the next couple of Sundays, in the thick of the football season, you’ll see some parishioners glance nervously at their watches, hoping you’ll be mercifully brief so they can get home in time for kickoff.
But in person, things are a little more “old school,” particularly when it comes to one of the game’s most important aspects: determining where exactly the ball is supposed to be located and how far the offense has to move it for a first down. The way that’s done today is the way it’s been done since 1906 — the year the NCAA determined that a team needed 10 yards, not five, for a first down, and the year that the forward pass was
It’s said that a baseball player’s professional career is much like a normal human lifespan, only crammed into 15-20 years (if he’s lucky enough to have a career that long). Well, baseball fans feel the sting of that accelerated lifespan, too. Tim Wakefield, the Red Sox’ 45-year-old pitcher, has officially retired. Barring any unlikely comebacks, on Opening Day I will be older than every active major league
This past week, I have had my first real dose of “college all-nighters.” An all-nighter occurs when a student stays up all night to complete studying, an assignment or a project. All-nighters are frustrating, tiresome, brutal, and it always seems as though that night is never going to end. The hardest part of pulling an all-nighter is not staying up all night; neither is it having to complete the assignment. The hardest part of pulling an all-nighter is trying to get your mind, body, and will to all align on the same
John Hix, the noted Canadian architect and developer of the Hix Island House, the high-design, eco-resort on the Caribbean island of Vieques, has opened the first totally “off-the-grid,” solar powered resort building.
The new six-unit building, called Casa Solaris, is located on the resort complex.
We took a tour of the new complex with Hix who explained that solar power in the Caribbean is feasible to run a luxury facility.
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If you want to discover a path for yourself as you approach the so-called “golden years,” ask yourself the question: Why Am I Here?. Even better, take some time to contemplate the following pair of questions:
Why Am I Here? Versus What Do I Want?
Chances are, if you are like most people your age, you have spent the first half or more of your life in pursuit of answers to the second question. Getting what you want, in short, is what motivated you for a long time. It is, after all, what we are programmed to
One of the most difficult issues I’ve had to face in midlife is letting go of an old friend. I’ve invested considerable time and energy in my men friends over the years, and our support for each other has never wavered. We’ve been there for each other through my devastation of losing a son and their worst times as well. Friendships are forever, right? Apparently
I recently interviewed someone for a book I am writing. He knew he had reached a point in his life that he wanted to sharpen his focus and sense of self. The focus was to create a happier self and a sense of accomplishment — contributing to life and not just doing a job. He had stories to share and wisdom he had gained in his industry from which many could benefit, he
Pregnancy gets weirder as we get rounder. What really goes on under wraps during those nine-plus months? From a hidden bias involving swelling bosoms to fetal cells in maternal brain, scientists have found a mother lode of surprsing phenomena. Here are seven discoveries nobody really expects when she’s expecting.
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As a kid, I went to a YMCA day camp on the north shore of Boston that was located on an island. Every morning, the campers took a boat from the dock to camp and every afternoon, we returned by boat to our awaiting parents. It was one of those things that was far better in theory than actuality, as the camp was pretty poorly run and kind of a dump. Well it was every day, except for the visiting days when the parents got to see it and remind us 57,932 times just how lucky we were to go to camp
My wife, 10-year-old son, and I live in Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston, S.C., on a street where nearly everyone has at least one child between the ages of 7 and 12. Every afternoon seven or eight boys are in my next-door neighbor’s yard playing football and not inside playing video games. If I’m home from work early enough, I’ll watch them play from our dining room, looking out through what my wife calls “the window to the world.”
We know one another and watch out for each other’s
Sen. Rick Santorum has made a serious mistake.
On Saturday, the presidential hopeful was addressing a group in Ohio when he made the unfortunate assertion that Obama’s agenda is:
The first reason this is a mistake is that Santorum has decided to make the presidential campaign about religious orthodoxy and introduced theology into politics in an agressive way. His less than subtle message is that anyone who believes in the Bible, or even takes the Bible seriously, should be suspect of the President who is serving up ‘false teachings’ referencing Matthew 7:15 which reads: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
Santorum’s recent comments should be a major turn off to anyone who understand that while all politics are informed by values, religious and secular, we should be very wary when politicians begin to assert religious creedal tests into electoral
This week, as Linsanity continued to grip the NBA, the old fashioned kind of madness dominated the political debate as the GOP continued to press its self-destructive battle over birth control. Who could have predicted that Republicans would want to make the 2012 election about uteruses instead of the economy? So we got the spectacle of a GOP-led House hearing on contraception that didn’t have any women on the panel, and were treated to Santorum supporter Foster Friess’ nostalgic longing for the days when “gals” used to put Bayer aspirin between their knees for contraception. In 2008, Obama and McCain basically split the male vote.
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Well, here they go again. With nothing positive to campaign on, GOP strategists have decided to launch a messaging war against President Obama, blaming him for the high price of gasoline. According to the New York Times, the GOP argument is that when Obama took office in 2009, gas was $1.89 per gallon. Today, the price for that same gallon is
Two years ago, I got an invitation to a holiday charity event called Teddy Bears for Kids to be hosted at the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States of America. I was intrigued, and quickly turned to Google to find out more about this organization and it’s connection to Roosevelt. I quickly learned that ‘teddy’ bears were named after the one and only Theodore (a.k.a. ‘Teddy’)
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The New York Street Artist Talks About Agony, Painting and UFOs
Inside out. The words capture the dynamic of an artists journey to the canvas – and the Street Artists trip to the wall. Cake, her street name, has been hitting New York streets for five years with some of her innermost dialogues; stories of love, loss, addiction, emotional turmoil. The act of painting, cutting, and wheat pasting her figurative work on decayed and battered walls bears witness to the
I was a young BBC reporter when I first met Margaret Thatcher on a cold Scottish hillside. She was standing in front of the wreckage of the Pan Am airliner that had exploded over Lockerbie. As the news pack surged forward, I was knocked to the ground, prompting the British prime minister to wade into the scrum, reach down and pull me up. It was a tiny glimpse of Thatcher’s rarely displayed humanity which I was reminded of while watching Meryl Streep’s startling performance in The Iron Lady.
I sincerely hope that Streep wins an Oscar this Sunday for her portrayal of
Well, here they go again. With nothing positive to campaign on, GOP strategists have decided to launch a messaging war against President Obama, blaming him for the high price of gasoline. According to the New York Times, the GOP argument is that when Obama took office in 2009, gas was $1.89 per gallon. Today, the price for that same gallon is
Ever since the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth-Harold Prince Merrily We Roll Along opened in 1981, rolling along merrily is one thing it hasn’t done. A hodge-podge of notions about lost dreams, eroding romance and the ever-present perils of show business very freely adapted from the unsuccessful 1934 George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy and using only the title and the time-in-reverse conceit, it had one unassailable asset — Sondheim’s score, which was, and remains, right up there with his other often imitated but inimitable scores.
Along with “Old Friends,” the melting “Our Time” and two of the much celebrated tunesmith’s most trenchant torch songs, “Not a Day Goes By” and “Good Thing Going,” are several more craftily integrated numbers. Not a one goes by without attesting to Sondheim’s effortless (though we know it’s supremely effortful) ability to rhyme with the flow of everyday conversation and his equally effortless (ditto the effortful part) cornucopia of melodies — the melodies, of course, rarely receiving the deserved praise his lyrics inevitably get.
Revived now in the City Center Encores! series and conducted energetically by Rob Berman, the enterprise is probably the slickest it’s ever
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