Paradise Found
A country without a memory is a country of madmen. – George Santayana A drab brown hummingbird darts to the scarlet feeder that hangs in the shadow of the house. It siphons the simple syrup, its...
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By the time my father was in his third year of college at Villanova there was nothing he could not do. Newly married he and my mother lived in a small apartment above a garage. His in-laws paid the rent.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein “When I was a little girl like you, I could fly.” My father said this to us, his 6 daughters, with increasing regularity as we were...
View ArticleObligation
Some are born with an innate sense of purpose, responsibility, and determination. Add to that a father’s stolid example. A father who everyday of his life rose from his heaped quilts, trudged to...
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