By Another Door

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”

– William Bruce Cameron

“Some answers come not by thinking, but by feeling.”

– J. R. StJohn

 So you’ve come a long way, spent the night in the hotel across the street, put on your serious suit and the killer tie. Walked with your team in a caravan with your computers,

Roller Coaster

“Buy when there is blood running in the streets!”

– Mayer Amschel Rothschild (Baron Rothschild)
Founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty
1744 — 1812

These are “Interesting Times!” So many garish headlines, such hateful cruelty. So much crisis! Invective! Brutality! What a noisy, and

Setting and Re-Setting Cornerstones

“Turn left where the old oak tree used to be!”

– Anonymous

I asked directions on a country road in Louisiana. The old gentleman said, “Go down the road a piece, and turn left where the old oak tree used to be… Then go on ‘bout five miles. You’ll meet up with the freeway presently!”

He

Lions, Jell-O Molds & Butterick Patterns

“If I have seen further, it’s by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
– Sir Isaac Newton
English Mathematician & Physicist
(1642 – 1727)

As a child, going to the Art Museum, I was frightened to walk past the ten foot tall green lion sitting regally on the front lawn. Mom said, “Don’t be frightened dear, it’s just a shrub.” We went closer and I tentatively reached out and touched the green shoots sprouting from Leo’s mane – amazed. “Mommy,

Poised for Outrage!

“Don’t understand me so quickly!”

– Yul Brynner as Chris in “The Magnificent Seven”
Film and Theater Actor
1920 — 1985

Have you noticed that people are “Poised for outrage”? Cutting you off halfway through a sentence? That they see you as “evil incarnate” before