As I browsed through the art gallery I was taken by the contrast of styles. From a more traditional painter, the Realist, there were beautiful scenes of landscape and images of buildings and people. Sometimes hidden within the picture were items of symbolism, put there by the artist to make you think, to provide more than a scene, to also provide a message beyond the obvious one. I moved on to an ...

Alfred Lansing  authored a book in 1959 called Endurance, named after a ship that took 27 men on an unbelievable adventure. The intent was to deliver a team led by Sir Ernest Shackleton to the shores of Antarctica below South America. Once there, the plan was for his team to go by dog sled across the continent. It is December 1914 when their ship enters an ice field. It traps them on all sides. Th...

Martin Luther was one of the primary reformers during the 16th century, issuing his 95 theses in 1517 on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Rexanne and I have been there. While on a trip to one of the libraries we work with, this one in Berlin (Open Door Libraries), we took a side trip to Wittenberg and visited the city of Luther. We have a picture we took of the Castle Church i...