Genius Table

Our friend Jerry Frye had an oversized drafting table – standing desk,- work station which he referred to as his Genius Table. Here he programmed, solved problems, developed ideas and did some serious thinking. In his honor and also just stealing a good idea, we have always favored a high spacious work space. Combining smaller…

Television

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray go throw your TV set away and in its place, you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall A Poem by Roald Dahl

Put the Phone Down!

More and more we are aware that everyone is on the phone Even Crossing the Street, Driving the Car There are safety and social implications, but also physical effects Like where you change the display setting during sleep hours We would like our cell phone to occupy less of our life One solution: We purchased…

Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson gospel blues singer and guitarist and evangelist (1897-1945) In 1977, Carl Sagan and a team of researchers were tasked with collecting a representation of Earth and the human experience for sending on the Voyager probe to other life forms in the universe.[39] Among the 27 songs selected for the Voyager Golden Record,…

Gratitude (William F Buckley)

“To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of Bach or Beethoven, when exercising our freedom to speak, or … to give, or withhold, our assent, is to fail to recognize how much we have received from the great wellsprings of human talent and…