Eric Scheske

From the Notebooks It is often repeated that a prophet has no honor in his own village–or family, or neighborhood, or country. If he has no honor there, it's because the people closest to him are acquainted with his ordinariness, and it blocks out the greatness, like

Male English teachers everywhere, don't teach Brokeback Mountain: A man assigned "The Crucible" in an adult education English class doused his teacher with a nonflammable liquid and threatened to burn her as a witch, police said [http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/bizarre/BO90911/]. __________ New Investment

It's the Feast Day of St. Francis. From GKC's St. Francis: > [I]t is true to say that what St. Benedict had stored St. Francis scattered; but in the world of spiritual things what had been stored into the barns like grain was scattered over