The winds of politics turned into a tornado in the last few months. Charges of a rigged election by a President who lost... uproar in a country divided... an attack on the U.S. Capitol that resulted in a riot... a second …
Virgil’s Corner #9
GOING FORWARD As I gaze our my window, I see winter wearing on. For many of us this natural march of the Seasons is dulled this year by the threat of a world wide pandemic and unrest here at home. The sight of thousands of …
Virgil’s Corner #8
THE PLAIN BROWN PAPER SACK As I look back to my youth, I find a memory of a plain brown paper sack. As a school boy I would rise every morning I and see my mother in the kitchen. She was carefully placing items in a plain …
Virgil’s Corner #7
LOOKING AT LIFE How should we look at life? Especially now as the world faces a runaway virus and as we struggle here at home with our divided nation? How do we heal? How do we come together again? As I was thinking about …
Virgil’s Corner #6
I think all of us at one time or another have run into a situation where life is not what it appears to be. I am reminded of a story I heard a while back about an older man named John. He was hired as a Greeter at a Walmart …
Virgil’s Corner #5
Once again in our times we are in an era of stress. A mysterious virus has led us to fear and has kept us isolated and apart from one another. This fear has denied us the most common expression of care and love - the human touch. …
Virgil’s Corner #4
It was a fine October afternoon in Washington, D.C. A fine day for a birthday for a very special man, the 34th President of the United States. Today, however, his surroundings were far different than the elegant trappings of …
Virgil’s Corner #3
Across America there are 117 national monuments… Which one was the most difficult to build? Surely, it has to be Mount Rushmore. The gigantic cliff towers 500 feet above the valley of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Every …