Musings of a Meandering Stream

Speak the truth and let the profit go;<br>For those who seek to please reap as they sow.<p>A SAMPLING FROM<br>The Musings of a Meandering Stream<p>To admit error openly and without hesitation brings an authenticity that being correct can never provide. <p>Resentment of authority is the inevitable response to a world where the unfit with rare exceptions rise to power. <p>Nature and nurture contrive to make us one of a kind and yet we strive to be one of the many. <p>Creativity seldom survives the standardized tests of life. <p>Whom do we believe? Censure's sincerity may be suspect but flattery rarely escapes its desire to please. <p>Culture writes its indelible message on our tabula rasa capturing us for life. <p>Time shapes recollections to serve our needs. <p>Virtue becomes vice when it is merely adopted as effective strategy. <p>Those who go the wrong way down the one-way streets of life are far less dangerous than the thoughtless majority whose mindless adherence to prevalent views of the moment is uncorrupted by evidence to the contrary. <p>The tender touch of a hand can express the most profound feelings of love and longing. <p>What is hell but immortality without love.<p>Memory evokes a creative portrait of the past. <p>Neutrality in the face of evil is no virtue.