Entries Tagged as ‘I admire...’

23 August 2007

Adventuresome and Adaptable

    

        “Remember two ‘A’s’”– “Be Adventuresome” and “Be Adaptable,”– those were the main points of the speaker’s address at my college graduation ceremony.  Those two qualities give any story a universal appeal.   If you don’t believe it, pick up any issue of the Readers Digest and browse through the titles. The main characters are adventurous, [...]

17 November 2006

Granny Brand

From “In His Image”, pp. 43-46, By Paul Brand

One last figure towers above an others who have influenced my life: my mother, known as Granny Brand. I say it kindly and in love, but in old age my mother had little of physical beauty left in her. She had been [...]