The Dalai Lama and Ann Coulter

This week in a bookstore in the Chicago Airport, I saw two books side by side. Ann Coulter's book "How to Talk to a Liberal" was next to the Dalai Lama's "The Wisdom of Forgiveness."

Was it by design or by chance?

Those two together, it was pretty cool. Just thinking about forgiveness, to and from several directions, the implications are wholesome.

The Hike from Sugarlands to Gatlinburg

Conversations with Goethe

From the book which Nietsche called the best German book there is: Conversations with Goethe,


"It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal"

p. 8 (Sept. 18, 1823)

from my local paper

Believe those who are seeking the truth

Doubt those who've found it


Andre Gide