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Friendship | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. I recently spoke about Friendship. To the high school youth group of my parish -about 150 students. Later, small group discussions were to focus on the Book of Sirach, Chapter 6, on True Friendship, so I tried to incorporate that. These are my edited notes with some of the images from the juxtaposed slideshow that I had going behind me. Many of the pull quotes here were also in the slide show. Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one finds a treasure. In some...
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Aristotle | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. I recently spoke about Friendship. To the high school youth group of my parish -about 150 students. Later, small group discussions were to focus on the Book of Sirach, Chapter 6, on True Friendship, so I tried to incorporate that. These are my edited notes with some of the images from the juxtaposed slideshow that I had going behind me. Many of the pull quotes here were also in the slide show. Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one finds a treasure. In some...
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History | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. There Goes Steve English, the Greatest Shooter that Ever Was. On the morning of May 28, 25 years ago, I awoke to a terrifying sound coming from my mother downstairs. Something I had never heard before. Something like, “No! 8221; with Irish defiance and maternal heartache. Something was really wrong. Within seconds my father came into my room with the news that my friend and classmate Steve English had died the night before. We had recently read. Grade, and since the 6. 8220;...
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Education | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. I had lunch today with a former student, David Stoughton, from my first year as a teacher. David has turned his high school landscaping business in Maryland into a burgeoning real estate enterprise in the Triad area of North Carolina. He started it out in his parents’ garage of course. Our lunch was in the oldest building in downtown Greensboro, which he owns, at the Liberty Oak restaurant, rated one of the best in the South by Southern Living magazine. I taught David Trigon...
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College | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. I recently spoke about Friendship. To the high school youth group of my parish -about 150 students. Later, small group discussions were to focus on the Book of Sirach, Chapter 6, on True Friendship, so I tried to incorporate that. These are my edited notes with some of the images from the juxtaposed slideshow that I had going behind me. Many of the pull quotes here were also in the slide show. Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one finds a treasure. In some...
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There Goes Steve English, the Greatest Shooter that Ever Was | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. There Goes Steve English, the Greatest Shooter that Ever Was. On the morning of May 28, 25 years ago, I awoke to a terrifying sound coming from my mother downstairs. Something I had never heard before. Something like, “No! 8221; with Irish defiance and maternal heartache. Something was really wrong. Within seconds my father came into my room with the news that my friend and classmate Steve English had died the night before. We had recently read. Grade, and since the 6. 8220;...
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Is Having a Pet Worth It? | James McPherson
https://jalmcpherson.com/2014/11/16/is-having-a-pet-worth-it
Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. Is Having a Pet Worth It? Is having a pet worth it? The question implies an equation: the pet, an equal sign, and “it”. Pet = X. Or at least it implies a valuation, with a break even point, before which one should not own a pet. The return just isn’t there yet. Dabble in pet return options until the market becomes more bullish. When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here? On Keeping a Dog, Lunacy and Letters. The insignificance of one pet fish in the greater ...
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parochialism | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. Does Travel Change You? Change is a morally neutral term, it can be virtuous or vicious. If the meteorologist says that the temperature is going to change, he offers no value unless the direction of the change is also conveyed. Is it going to be warmer or colder? So… does travel make you better or worse? Or do you stay the same? Mark Twain said,. But Dawson indicates that there are different ways to study history one way confirms us in the parochialism of our time, the other...
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Does Travel Change You? | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. Does Travel Change You? Change is a morally neutral term, it can be virtuous or vicious. If the meteorologist says that the temperature is going to change, he offers no value unless the direction of the change is also conveyed. Is it going to be warmer or colder? So… does travel make you better or worse? Or do you stay the same? Mark Twain said,. But Dawson indicates that there are different ways to study history one way confirms us in the parochialism of our time, the other...
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Smile | James McPherson
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Fatti Maschii, Parole Femine. I recently spoke about Friendship. To the high school youth group of my parish -about 150 students. Later, small group discussions were to focus on the Book of Sirach, Chapter 6, on True Friendship, so I tried to incorporate that. These are my edited notes with some of the images from the juxtaposed slideshow that I had going behind me. Many of the pull quotes here were also in the slide show. Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter; whoever finds one finds a treasure. In some...