Sculpted Souls Can Change The World

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
—     Joseph Addison
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
—     Nelson Mandela
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On This Day In:
2022	Sculpted Souls Can Change The World
2021	An Impossible Situation
	I Fear It Is (For Us If Not The Planet) (It’s Too Late)
2020	#45 Never Shuts Up
	Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love (Alabama Rain)
2019	Silly Pooh Bear
	Dominoes Or Jenga?
2018	Very Few
2017	Or The Candidate Who…
2016	The Happiest People
2015	Jumping Into The Dark
2014	I Would Be Sillier
2013	It Keeps Happening Anyway
2012	Take Time
2011	A Mother’s Lesson
2010	3rd Pair – Shoe Review (DOA and Final)

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Awaiting The Polisher

I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
—     Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2022	A Caution To The 99% About The Mid-Terms…
2021	Awaiting The Polisher
	With Old Friends (And Family) (Sangria Wine)
	…Before You Leap!
2020	I Don’t Want To Get Any Older…
	Maybe I’ll See You There (Downtown)
2019	Free At Last!
2018	Some Basic Virtues
	Day 17: Fit In 48’s
2017	Too Soon We Part…
	Rigorous And Difficult
2016	Where And Why
2015	The Beauty Of Thy Voice
2014	Faith In Men
2013	An Average Verge
2012	Dew Drop Secrets
2011	Champion Freedom

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Where I Write

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
—    French Proverb
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On This Day In:
2022	If Only I Could…
2021	Become Daily
	Just Pickin’ (Doc’s Guitar)
2020	So, You Think You Know The Answer?
	The One You Come Running To (Let’s Stay Together)
2019	His Promises, OUR Hopes
2018	Where I Write
2017	At Last, An Honest Philosopher…
2016	Fake It ‘Til You Make It
2015	Hell Toupée
2014	Corrected And Amended
2013	Too Few
2012	Three Characters
2011	Universal Payment
2010	Privatizing the TSA?  (An old – and long – post, but still relevant!!)

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