Doubt and Education

“There is a very old saying: ‘When the pupil is ready, the master will appear.’ -Anthony Hopkins, The Mask of Zorro I’m currently in the inchoate stage of starting a business. After several attempts in the past couple of years to get back to employment and thus ween myself off disability payments (attempts which have often […]

DROPS FROM HEAVEN

It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God’sWhen mercy seasons justice. Therefore… Though justice be thy plea, consider this,That, in the course of justice, none of usShould see salvation: we do pray for mercy;And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of […]

A Gull in the Wind

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his […]