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In 416 B.C., Athens and Sparta were at war. Caught in the middle of these two powerful belligerents was Melos, a small island in the Aegean Sea which tried desparately to maintain its neutrality. Though many Melians were related to the people of Sparta, Melos was careful not to give Athens a reason to harm them. The Melosian men talked each day among themselves of the weather, of sports and wine, perhaps just the common aches and pains of growing...

a niente: When you feel like you can't go on.

A NIENTE

I was watching highlights of the Beijing Olympic figure skating competition last evening and my thoughts went to Condoleezza Rice, a personal hero of mine who might have made the U.S. Olympic figure skating team herself years ago. One little known fact about her is the origin of her first name (Condoleezza) which is a musical term defined as “to play sweetly with feeling.” And if being an awesome athlete isn’t enough, she was also a concert pianist, who at...

ARE YOU TEMPTING GOD?

Almost everyday now, I read in the news or in a tweet about someone seriously ill with, or who has just died from, COVID. The stories are strikingly similar in many cases: “…man of faith…chose not to get vaccine…sorry now that he did not…moved to a ventillator…wife and children left behind…Please pray…” Some of these unfortunate people were politicians or candidates, others were media personalities, some were pastors or political activists, but most were just ordinary people who in many...

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