Although I Still Occasionally Paint And Draw,

Boys Like It When You Talk To Them As If They Were Grown Men—at Least He Always Did When He Was A Kid—because They Pretend That’s What They Are Anyhow, Grown-up Men, And They Do It For Their Entire Lives.

John Brown First Swam Into My Vision In The 1960s When I Was A Political Activist In The Civil Rights Movement And The Anti-war Movement At Chapel Hill, Where I Went To University.

What You Believe Matters, However. It’s All Anyone Has To Act On. And Since What You Do Is Who You Are, Your Actions Define You. If You Don’t Believe Anything Is True Simply Because You Can’t Logically Prove What’s True, You Won’t Do Anything. You Won’t Be Anything. You’ll End Up Spending Your Life In A Rocking Chair Looking Out At The Horizon Waiting For An Answer That Never Comes. You Might As Well Be Dead. It’s An Old Philosophical Problem.

If You Dedicate Your Attention To Discipline In Your Life You Become Smarter.

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.