Springtime scenes from around Charleston
I’m fortunate enough to live in a beautiful area, and it’s spring, so today is picture day.
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Category: Uplifting stories
A Merry Christmas from our friend March Hare
March Hare has been a long-time friend to this blog, for she always leaves comments that are interesting, informed, and very humanist (in a good way, not a leftist “secular humanist” way). This year, March Hare shared a poem with me and with all of you to remind us that,
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With Josh Groban’s O Holy Night, I officially start the Bookworm Christmas season
I have no idea why I love Josh Groban’s live version of O Holy Night so much; I just do. I’ve posted it ever year at Christmas and I’m not going to stop now:
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A reminder that we are blessed with very good people in America
I took a little time away today from politics and social commentary and, instead, concentrated on some uplifting, amusing, or entertaining videos. I felt perfectly fine today, but I was mentally limp. I couldn’t seem to fire up the writing corner of my brain. I did respond to emails, pay
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[VIDEO] MoMo’s prom date will make you a smiling, happy person
MoMo’s prom date video is really short, but it’s long enough to leave you with a big smile on your face and a warm feeling in your heart. MoMo suffers from a conversion disorder that affected her neurological system and left her unable to walk. As this heartwarming video shows, though,
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“I saw my opportunity and I took it” — James Shaw, Jr., Hero
James Shaw, a real hero, seeing his opportunity, was able to rise above fear and doubt. Unlike most people, he acted, saving innumerable lives. One of my favorite books ever is Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, an interview an enterprising newspaper man had in 1905 with George Washington Plunkitt, a practitioner of
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Happy New Year!!!
To all my dear friends at Bookworm Room: Let us hope that 2018 brings more of the wonderful things we saw in 2017: The return of the rule of law; the shrinking of the administrative state; a thriving economy; a restored sense of national security; and a newfound respect for
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As Adam Said . . .
As Adam said . . . . . . to his wife, several millennia less one day ago, “Hey, it’s Christmas, Eve.” What better way to celebrate than with Christmas songs? So with that intro, a few Christmassy things for your enjoyment Ms. BWR’s favorite, written in 1943, at the
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Simple rules to live by — ideas that make your life better
Here are the seven simple rules that have greatly improved my life (and made my children happier). Do you have simple rules that guide you? Politics disgusts me today and I don’t want to write about it. Instead, inspired by a lunchtime conversation I had with a friend, I’d like
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[VIDEO] Mandy Harvey: Her musicality transcends her deafness
Going deaf didn’t end Mandy Harvey’s musicality. She just had to find new ways to express it — and express it she does in this beautiful video. Watching Mandy Harvey, I thought of Beethoven. By saying that, I am not saying that Harvey has Beethoven’s genius, which is a ludicrously high
Continue readingA truly nice young man
It’s another day on which I apologize for a silent blog. All my life, my energy has ebbed and flowed, and sometimes it just ebbs too much. This is one of those days. I’ll be back and refreshed tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted you to see a video of
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[VIDEOS] Three videos about human ingenuity
I’m working on a longer post but, in the meantime, I have three short videos highlighting human ingenuity. What I like about these videos is that they’re not about earthshaking things, such as curing cancer or creating world peace. Instead, they’re about fairly mundane things — i.e., drawing, home design,
Continue readingIn the midst of death we are in life
I know I mangled the Latin saying “Media vita in morte sumus” (in the midst of life we are in death), but this story is a wonderful reminder that, in the midst of death, there is life — and very, very long life: Guinness World Records can today confirm that
Continue readingThe true purpose behind each of the 12 days of Christmas
Some years ago, my friend Wolf Howling took the time to look into the true festivals celebrated on each of the 12 days of Christmas — that holiday celebrated during medieval times on the longest, darkest, coldest days of a year that, in so many homes, got light and warmth
Continue readingHappiness is a philosophical decision and a key to success
I believe strongly that we have an affirmative obligation to be as happy as we possibly can under ordinary circumstances. That last clause, of course, means that ISIS-held Yazidi sex slaves don’t have to be happy — their circumstances are hardly ordinary. However, ordinary, average middle class women and college
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