Living up here at Love’s Landing places us a bit far from the kids and their kids. We really value the opportunities to get with any of them. This weekend Kim went down to get Ely and brought her up for a couple of evenings. We basically proofed up the house and set into the…
If you look at what prejudice is, it is simple. It is prejudging. Unfortunately the majority of those walking this planet are prejudiced. This word is usually associated with racial issues but that is only a small part of it. The real problem, a problem of sanity really, is that folks do not observe well….
The day the Democrats took over control of Congress was not January 22nd 2009, but two years earlier on January 3rd 2007. They took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end…
Today, a unique picture was taken. We did it in the spur of the moment – my daughter-in-law, Malika, snapped it. I believe this is the first picture ever taken, along our own Risley lineage, of 4 generations of Risley males, all with the name Risley, in a single pose. Here stands great granddad (Uncle…
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever together at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” Here…
What spins your clock? For me, there are activities so absorbing that I realize, a bit stunned, that the hours have slipped by without my awareness. It’s as I might imagine a time machine to which one enters and becomes so engrossed that the clock begins to spin in a blur. I’ve come to believe…
We saw Avatar twice – both in 3-D. It is a visually stunning work of art. It is a creative triumph for James Cameron and his team of amazing craftsmen. Our second time was at an IMAX 3-D in Orlando – even more stunning. I recommend this movie to anyone. The setting is a forested…
As a fellow of a few years I have watched styles come and go. My short hair of the early 70’s was spurned by most every one of my peers most of whom sported the long, even shoulder-length hair. Yet look around today. Young folks have their hair cropped to nothing. The longer haired folks…
Learning is a lifetime experience. Being humble or being able to be humbled is skill that I think some of us lose – to our own detriment. I’ve been a pilot, as of this writing, for over 37 years. I’ve lost friends to the sport but have many, many more who are alive and well…
In 1964, the late radio commentator Paul Harvey broadcast the following commentary. It bears repeating today. America has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically outnumbered by the incompetents, are being corralled, restrained, confined and milked like barnyard cattle. The giants who created our skyscraper civilization are now ordered to obey Lilliputian…