“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you” – Langston Hughes Project 365: #125 There is nothing nicer than summer rain! It was a boiling day today that ended in huge downpour. As soon as the sun started shining again, steam rose off the driveway. Everything…
Day 124: Statues and church spires
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?” – Victor Hugo Project 365: #124 This is another statue commemorating the Civil War on the Morristown Green, with the spire from the Presbyterian Church in the background. If only we could learn from all these…
Day 123: Hungry squirrels
“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation” – Nazim Hikmet Project 365: # 123 While on my walkabouts I have come across many bushy-tailed gray squirrels. They…
Day 122: Morristown Green
“The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace” – Alexander Hamilton Project 365: #122 I had to return my hired car early on Saturday morning, and as Mike was busy trying…
Day 121: Freedom Tower by night
“And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he’d come from, and the Freedom Tower he’d been thinking of: taken together, didn’t they contain the two words that said it all about this city, the two words that really mattered? It seemed to him that they did. Two words: the one an invitation,…