Harrison Farm

I’m reading Booker T. Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery and took note of an interesting section where Washington contrasts 2 different schools.  He notes » Read the rest of this entry «

We ate Alaskan Salmon the other night, and Sudoku said, “Look, mama! It looks like there are flowers in your fish.” Sure enough. They look like tight little roses. Just beautiful.

The kids and I recently read The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson about the building of the first Ferris wheel. The Ferris wheels I have seen and ridden are tiny in comparison to the first one, built to a whopping 264 feet (or 25 stories) in 1893 by Pittsburgh bridge-builder, George Ferris. The wheel was meant to rival the Eiffel Tower and was showcased at the World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago.

To give you an idea of how grandiose it was, each “car” on a typical Ferris wheel can hold 2 people. The cars on the Great Wheel, however, » Read the rest of this entry «

We read a couple of children’s books about Thomas Edison last week. I especially enjoyed Young Thomas Edison by Micheal Dooling. The oil illustrations are beautiful. We also watched a A&E biography about Edison. Here are some quick facts that we learned about him. » Read the rest of this entry «

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. » Read the rest of this entry «

“For we are always what our situations hand us. It’s either sadness or euphoria.”

– Billy Joel

. . . now for a different view . . .

“To be subjected to our lusts, and to yield to them, is the most extreme form of slavery. To keep those lusts in subjection is the only liberty.”

– Clement of Alexandria (c. 195 A.D.)

Liberty promotes peace, and peace promotes prosperity. - Ron Paul

A happy for a rainy day. I love how you can “see” the movement and layers of the music in this video.

“There are those who say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.  They are right.  It is the American Dream.”

–Archibald MacLeish

David is featured in this documentary that was accepted to the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Congratulations, Uncle D, Greg, and Ironbound Films.