D. RANDALL FARO

Mahatma Gandhi said: “In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.” Another way of saying it: just because the...

In 1965 The Lovin’ Spoonful released a song with the lyrics: “Did you ever have to make up your mind? / Pick up on one and leave the...

Swashbuckling Wallace Beery. Action hero John Wayne. Dedicated cop Jack Webb. Fast-draw U.S. marshal James Arness. The characters they...

Travelling abroad, one occasionally comes across signs that the host country courteously translated from the native language into...

Sodium is one of the most unstable of all the elements. Drop a small lump of pure sodium into ordinary water and it will explode with...

JUSTICE – Part 2 13 July 2017 304 words Two poems. The first one I wrote in the 70s: Counting the cost those who wave the banners of...

A man is reading a book beside a gently gurgling river. Suddenly a drowning baby floats by. True to his nature, the Samaritan jumps in...

Give or take one hundred and twenty seconds. Compare that to forty-five years. I counted forty-five rings on the stump of a majestic...

The Dalai Lama once said that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Many historical examples validate this...

Two flags fly in front of my house. One has stars and stripes. The other has a large red maple leaf. Merriam-Webster defines nationalism:...

A diamond in the rough. The writing on the wall. All that glitters is not gold. The devil is in the details. Behind the eight ball. The...

The Smithsonian magazine generally has a host of interesting articles. The June 2017 issue includes one titled “Life Without End” about...

On 10 December 1948 in Paris, France the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not a single country voted...

The North Fork Snoqualmie River originates on the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. This time of year the...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau was published in 1854. The concepts contain therein are timeless. It is well worth the read. For example:...

Think Big – Act Small. A drum I’ve been beating for decades. Think Big. Put simply, think that what you do matters. That, in fact, it can...

Dihydrogen oxide. Can’t live with it; can’t live without it. It can be benign or lethal. It can scald you or freeze you. In combination...

Knowledge. It’s a good thing and the human species has a fair bit of it. But in terms of what there IS to know, we possess maybe...

The ancient Hebrew prophet was enticed (Jeremiah 20:7). It was not something he likely would have concocted himself, but to use his own...

Heaven on earth . . . when love becomes routine. We’re not talking about romantic, smushy, pearls-and-perfume love, but the kind of...