by Morning Reflections | Jun 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
There was a time, not so long ago, that parks were the exclusive playgrounds of the rich and famous. During most of European history, green spaces were cultivated by wealthy landowners for private use. Trespassers – including impoverished poachers trying to...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 1849 a young Russian named Fyodor Dostoevsky was arrested and imprisoned. He was charged with being part of a group that read books that appeared to be critical of Czar Nicholas I. After awaiting trial for eight months in a festering jail, Dostoevsky...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Preachers and teachers usually keep a signature story in their back pocket – something they can always count on to drive home a key point. One of Billy Graham’s signature stories concerned Albert Einstein. Like a lot of the oft-repeated anecdotes concerning the...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thomas Jefferson was obsessed with mammoths. The third president of the United States may be renowned for authoring the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, and endlessly tinkering with his dream house at Monticello, but his mind never...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
In our wildest fantasies, we might dare to dream that one day something we have written will win a major literary prize. Then again, we wouldn’t necessarily call all of our friends if word came down that we had won the annual Bookseller / Diagram Prize. ...
