“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde

The Great Imaginer

2023-02-20T11:14:36-05:00February 12th, 2011|Vintage Musings|

Take away all the religious jargon about Jesus and perhaps you can see that he was the Great “Imaginer.” “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” “Rise, take up your mat and walk.” “Even though you die, yet shall you live.” Now THAT’S a great imagination! [READ MORE]

Imagining More Than Red Flowers

2023-01-17T12:36:56-05:00February 11th, 2011|Vintage Musings|

Harry Chapin’s song “Flowers Are Red” expresses what I think invariably happens to us as we go through life. We lose our ability to imagine. Someone else’s “reality” replaces our imagination and we buy into the notion that “Flowers Are Red”… The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. What you doin’ young man I’m paintin’ flowers he said She said… It’s not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green [READ MORE]

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