A slender kid with a deep voice, I hadn’t seen or heard from him in almost six decades
Our family pulled up stakes and moved the summer after my fifth grade. We had been in the house for ten years, the only home my siblings and I had known and the move was a bit of a . . . → Read More: Finding Tony Doughty
Notes for August 3, 2009
(Thanks to the Strong Family Association of America for the invitation to speak at their annual meeting)
The definition of a “stronghold” is a hilltop fortress, a bulwark against the dangers of the surrounding world. So the question is, how does what appears to be an ancient European fortress come to occupy . . . → Read More: The Stronghold
…especially in the case of healthcare and public schooling. Most large public school systems get public funds doled out to them based on attendance. In our area in suburban Chicago the schools get a specified amount per pupil per year. That’s why it is so important to school systems to have high attendance. When someone noticed . . . → Read More: You Get What You Pay For…
Notes for July 16, 2009
Milkweed and crown vetch in the Fox River Forest Preserve meadow July 16, 2009
Last April, after the snow had melted, we walked the meadow next to the boat landing in the Fox River Forest Preserve. It was a cold, blustery day and the dogs ran back and forth sniffing everything. We . . . → Read More: Milkweed & Monarchs
Order out of Chaos
The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson understood that “a photograph could fix eternity in an instant,” capturing and recording a view of a slice of time. Selecting that view and choosing that slice of time became a creative act, plucking the particular instant out of the chaotic flow of life. He had, or developed, . . . → Read More: Order out of Chaos