View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Education is our focus today. Timothy Meegan of the Chicago Sun-Times said this: “Our schools are being starved into failure in orde...

View From Here: High Cost of Celebrity

View From Here: High Cost of Celebrity: It is not easy being a celebrity. It might seem magical to the uninitiated – the lights flashing, cameras clicking, public excitement as ...

View From Here: More Than We Can Handle?

View From Here: More Than We Can Handle?: I was in a meeting the other day. A wonderful fellowship of diverse people around the room who came together to talk about their own prob...

View From Here: What Can We Do?

View From Here: What Can We Do?: A quiet life is hard to acquire. And then we wonder if we are bored yet! So we think afresh what we do with our time and what we would li...

View From Here: A Birthday & ?

View From Here: A Birthday & ?: Today is my mother’s 101 st birthday. That’s quite an achievement. Mom doesn't read this blog mainly because she doesn't own a c...

View From Here: Love America?

View From Here: Love America?: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claims to know that President Obama does not love America ! He further claims this is because Ob...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Truth Mark Twain said: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” He also said: “A lie can travel half way aro...

View From Here: Pondering ISIS

View From Here: Pondering ISIS: Day by day we read reports on the Middle East and its attendant chaos. It is oil production and wealth on the one hand coupled with pol...

View From Here: Life after Work

View From Here: Life after Work: Most people think retirement is life after work. My experience suggests something else is at play. First, life is always with you unl...

View From Here: Pulling in the Same Direction?

View From Here: Pulling in the Same Direction?: A fire burns out a home; a family is homeless until the insurance company provides the authorization to rebuild or rehabilitate the struc...

View From Here: Reading or Viewing

View From Here: Reading or Viewing: Scanned the news on the internet this morning. Found a number of items of interest. Clicked on the stories to follow and got…a video site...

View From Here: Believing in You

View From Here: Believing in You: Why is it so difficult for others to believe in the good of other people? It seems an automatic truth that we distrust others before we t...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Thought for the Day “ Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the rea...

View From Here: Sorting It Out

View From Here: Sorting It Out: The sun is shining as I write this. It is cold, near zero wind chill with the wind blowing out of the north at 20 miles an hour. Later th...

View From Here: Double Loss

View From Here: Double Loss: OK, this was not a good week. On Tuesday I sat in a management team meeting for our small town newspaper. The three of us own and operate...

View From Here: Not Alright

View From Here: Not Alright: Things change. That’s life. Onward to yet another point of equilibrium. Out of balance one moment, power and energy shift a bit here and ...

View From Here: Taking The Day Off

View From Here: Taking The Day Off: The press of other matters keeps me from posting today. I'll be back tomorrow. George Safford February 10, 2015

View From Here: Alternative Posting

View From Here: Alternative Posting: I wrote a blog for today on Friday. It is/was heartfelt and was to announce a shift in how I spend my time. But last minute events have...

View From Here: Thought for the Day

View From Here: Thought for the Day: Two thoughts to ponder this weekend. Both are from Maya Angelou: “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.” “ If you don&#39...

View From Here: Netanyahu Again!

View From Here: Netanyahu Again!: Well, Israeli elections must be just around the corner. Netanyahu is Prime Minister – again – after how many terms? Yes he has lost in th...

View From Here: Dialogue or Economic Sanctions?

View From Here: Dialogue or Economic Sanctions?: The war of words over Russia ’s insurgency and take over of Crimea, and on-going efforts to take over Ukraine , continue to escalate. Eco...

View From Here: Infrastructure Rehab

View From Here: Infrastructure Rehab: Independent Senator from Vermont , Bernie Sanders, is urging federal support for a five year, $1 trillion infrastructure rehabilitation p...

View From Here: Looking for Answers, and Questions

View From Here: Looking for Answers, and Questions: There’s a trick buried in today’s title. So many of us spend our lives finding answers to problems, questions and enigmas. So few of us g...

View From Here: Being True

View From Here: Being True: Being true to oneself , actually, is the theme of this posting. It is also the over arching theme of this entire blog – View From Here. ...