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Continue reading →: “I think this is way worse than we can possibly imagine.”
It’s impossible to predict just how bad this Coronavirus outbreak will get. Given the entire situation, there is no need for panic….yet. But we must be prepared for a major outbreak in this country. But are we? What makes this situation potentially far worse is that China is not an…
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Continue reading →: Libraries, books, and education
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. ― Henry David Thoreau Now here is a piece of good news. According to Gallup polling, visiting the local library remains, by far, the most common cultural activity Americans engage in. It’s nice to know Amazon hasn’t put libraries out of…
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Continue reading →: A Sunday Reflection
While looking through a box of books, I found my copy of William Butler Yeats’s Autobiographies. I read it probably 15 years ago. I opened it and saw these words I’d underlined in pencil during my reading. I have remembered to-day that the Brahmin Mohini said to me, ‘When I…
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Continue reading →: New Year’s Day at Washington National Cathedral
Most of you recognize Washington D.C. by its neoclassical buildings like the U.S. Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the ancient Greek temple-style memorials of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. But off in the distance, away from the National Mall and all the government buildings and memorials, on the heights of…
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Jeff Wills 