Today, while sitting at breakfast in the sunroom of our B&B in Victoria, BC (in a quiet residential neighborhood a block from the beach end of Beacon Hill Park), I saw an elderly woman walking down the sidewalk with a sign pinned to the neck of her blouse.
“War Is Dysfunctional”
I ran out and stopped her [...]
Introit
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift, but generosity and indifference to money; not caution but courage and contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love for truth; not tact but love for one's neighbors and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.



