14-06-23 If I Don't Go Crazy David Kirby There's a sheriff's car parked near Emerald Mound, and the deputy is looking down at his lap and smiling, which means he's probably doing what everyone else is doing these days, that is, texting, though I think he's k...

14-05-15 Life is like a big swing, dangling（摇晃） between the depths of happiness and sadness. As soon as we descend down the slope of sadness, we accelerate over the ever-feel-good acclivity（向上的斜坡） of happiness. At times of distress, when we are do...

14-05-14 Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come. She had no sooner gone than he arrived, and not finding his mother in her apa...

14-05-04 As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity....

14-05-04 I will know that only those with inferior（差的，自备的） ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must IN THE WORLD constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such a despair and s...

14-04-29 Once Yan Yuan asked his mentor Confucius why those who are good at swimming or diving can learn how to steer a boat very quickly. Confucius said, It is because those who are good at swimming do not fear water when they are in it. Those who are good...

14-04-17 The New Song W. S. Merwin For some time I thought there was time and that there would always be time for what I had a mind to do and what I could imagine going back to and finding it as I had found it the first time but by this time I do not know wh...

14-04-02 To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live on the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you a...

14-01-14 Ed Ashley Mailloux There once was a horse named Ed, Who always ate something red. He didn't mind To be treated unkind. As long as he was fed....

13-10-29 Slack Action Jeffery Donaldson It goes through my mind like a train at night, the train my father rode in the night, his mind a train of thought far from where he rode. When I pull into the seniors' home I like to feel the car drift in abeyance（悬...