Status Quote: By: HENRY WARD BEECHER
My heart is genuine. My ideas are far reaching. My voice is quiet. I love my family, and my friends. I write from my gut, and feel a passion for it. I appreciate truthfulness, artistic perspectives, and honesty. I listen and seek the beauty and passion in all things, great and small.
SILENT ERA

Looking for the beauty of the world and in the people; some times it comes in such small doses. Then there are days when the world comes together and we make an event filled with passion, concern, empathy, support, and assistance.

If only we could come together and offer solutions and input in a more effective manner, until strength and hope of what was bought, sold, stolen, given, and lost can be found. A mutual compromise of living and understanding must be found. Sharing and recovering by fair and reasonable terms that include everyone, not just those who can pay, for those who can not....become invisible.

Elimination is happening in every country, every season, every day. Villages, small towns, cultures, tribes, families, individuals and life all quietly disappearing.

NEW WORLDS

Goethe wrote of “the Americas of the mind.” In the artist’s life of the imagination there is vision and adventure and the discovery of new worlds. An artist’s masterpiece is such an America of the mind: a new world of meaning expressed in terms of abiding beauty, be it in marble or paint or words of musical tone. And in this great vision we are privileged to share. To see eye to eye with great artists is to expand and enrich the world in which we live. ~By: Radoslav A. Tsanoff

AN INVISIBLE HOST

An American soldier wounded on a battlefield in the Far East owes his life to the Japanese scientist Kitasato, who isolated the bacillus of tetanus. A Russian soldier saved by a blood transfusion is indebted to Landsteiner, an Austrian. A German is shielded from typhoid fever with the help of a Russian, Metchnikoff. A Dutch marine in the East Indies is protected from malaria because of the experiments of an Italian, Grassi; while a British aviator in North Africa escapes death from surgical infection because a Frenchman, Pasteur, and a German, Koch, elaborated a new technique.

In peace, as in war, we are beneficiaries of knowledge contributed by every nation in the world. Our children are guarded from diphtheria by what a Japanese and a German did; they are protected from smallpox by the work of an Englishman; they are saved from rabies because of a Frenchman; they are cured of pellagra through the researches of an Austrian. From birth to death they are surrounded by an invisible host-the spirits of men who never thought in terms of flags or boundary lines and who never served a lesser loyalty than the welfare of mankind. ~Raymond B. Fosdick