Sunday Newscape Magazine

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Henri Bergson

Today I pried my butt up out of my computer chair and took it to the Centennial Trail I've told you of before. The one that runs alongside the beautiful Spokane River. Someday I'll have to walk more of the 30+ miles of this paved pedestrian scenic route than the two miles I visit religiously.

As most of you know being a father out ways anything in my life. In my opinion, if you have children there is nothing more important than to provide, nurture, and educate their precious souls.  My hope is that my stories provide an example to parents who may have lost touch with this simple philosophy. This story is no exception.

We all have friends, relatives and co-workers who are not good at meeting deadlines or managing their time. On a regular basis, they come to us with an eleventh hour emergency and that is when they beg us to save their neck. Because you’re such a good person, you alter your schedule, drop what you’re doing and come to their aid. That is okay to do, for someone who you care about, but no more than once a year.

The month of May is a special month for our military. The entire month is National Military Appreciation Month, giving us the opportunity to honor and recognize the courageous men and women who serve and protect our nation. May 8 was Military Spouse Appreciation Day. May 16 was Armed Forces Day,

Last summer a picture issued from the US Supreme Court, Justice Scalia, et alii. It was not an instant Polaroid, but a picture long in development, like all Supreme Court decisions. A portrait, "felons and the mentally ill." Almost no one "saw" the double portrait, assuredly no one at the supreme court did. Copies spread throughout the country, editors faxed, photocopied and printed them. Newscasters flashed them, and advocacies, legislators, government agencies shouted them, without themselves "seeing" the picture.