“And it shall come to pass afterward, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions…”  Joel 2:2 * * * What we have here is a minor 9th Century BC prophet projecting his prognostication …

Chance has a way of untangling things that wisdom leaves dangling. * * * We read a lot about Russia these days. Churchill took his best shot at defining it: “It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”  Insightful, but leaves us hanging. Al Franken, a comedian and former U.S. Senator, (is there …

 “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” Jonathan Winters *** It’s May, graduation time, when our educational systems turn out their inmates to the general public. Beware –everything is in danger of change. Everywhere they stand, waiting for the final exhortation of great wisdom from the commencement speaker. Then, in collective …