by Guy Sayles | Jun 16, 2015 |
The little town of Erwin, TN has what it calls a “Linear Trail” which runs parallel to, and between, I-26 and the railroad tracks. It variously skirts the edge of an industrial park, borders a neighborhood, goes along open pasture, and, most beautifully,...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 11, 2015 |
We want to be known and to know, to be understood and to understand, and, most of all, to be loved and to love. We want to feel cradled close to our mother’s breast, to feel our father’s strong-gentle embrace, to hear her sing us into peaceful sleep, and to...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 9, 2015 |
Is time on our side? Or is the clock against us?Some people are on good terms with time. They’re able to gauge how long a task will take, and they’ve learned how important it is to schedule a bit of margin into their days so that they can accommodate...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 3, 2015 |
As I walked downtown this past Sunday morning, no buskers played their fiddles, performed magic tricks, or shaped balloon sculptures. No trolley tours rolled by. Children weren’t playing in “Splashville’s” fountains. Bocce Ball games hadn’t started in...
by Guy Sayles | May 31, 2015 |
“Threes” seem to pervade our experience.In The Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Schneider noted that ancient mathematicians thought of the numbers “one” and “two” as the parents of all the other numbers. “Three” was their firstborn....
by Guy Sayles | May 28, 2015 |
Sometimes, the tragedy, violence, suffering, and despair which fill the world overwhelm me, and I can’t help but ask, “Where is God?”There’s no greater theological and emotional problem than “the problem of evil”: If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why do evil,...
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