Happy Birthday, Mom.
My mother’s world was her garden. Hybrid eggplants, tomatoes—Better Girls and June Pinks. Bermuda onions, Whopper sweet peppers, Monkey Begonias, Ginger and Day Lilies. A hand-carried Bolivian climbing vine, Here-Today-and-Gone-Tomorrow, reaching far into the recesses of her thoughts. In her old age my mother plants trees in her mind Sycamore, Mesquites, and Catalpas. She collects […]
Developing Character . . .
The following is the abstract from a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper, Number 20749 (December 2014). It is entitled, Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success. The authors include Tim Kautz, James J. Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel, and Lex Borghans. Character is shaped by […]
The Bavarian Hat: The First Entry
This hat is a symbol of my childhood. We traveled extensively during our stay in France when my father worked in the Alsace Lorraine area as a part of the European Marshall Plan after World War II. For now, I will just mention that memories represented by the various places on the hat go far […]
Ingleside Seed Farm
The picture above is a colorized photo my grandfather created in the darkroom on their farm, the Ingleside Seed Farm. The farm represents my grandfather’s blending of science and art. And my grandmother was with him every step of the way. Ingleside represents a place residing in the heart. It is an interior landscape. A […]