Far Better To Think Historically, To Remember

Baseball Is About Homecoming. It Is A Journey By Theft And Strength, Guile And Speed, Out Around First To The Far Island Of Second, Where Foes Lurk In The Reefs And The Green Sea Suddenly Grows Deeper, Then To Turn Sharply, Skimming The Shallows, Making For A Shore That Will Show A Friendly Face, A Color, A Familiar Language And, At Third, To Proceed, No Longer By Paths Indirect But Straight, To Home.

The University Is Our Culture's Assertion That What Is Made By The Mind Has Value And Can Convey Values.

If A Family Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Biology, A City Is An Expression Of Continuity Through Will Amd Imagination? Through Mental Choices Making Artifice, Not Through Physical Reproduction.

Far Better To Think Historically, To Remember The Lessons Of The Past. Thus, Far Better To Conceive Of Power As Consisting In Part Of The Knowledge Of When Not To Use All The Power You Have. Far Better To Be One Who Knows That If You Reserve The Power Not To Use All Your Power, You Will Lead Others Far More Successfully And Well.

For Me, Baseball Is The Most Nourishing Game Outside Of Literature. They Both Are Re-tellings Of Human Experience.