Spring always reminds me how glorious blue skies and green leaves can be. When I was in the second grade, Mrs. Arnold chastised me for using those colors together. She said they didn’t match. Mrs. Arnold had very specific rules about which colors could be used together. We couldn’t deviate from her rules. When I used green and blue together in one of my class drawings, she forced me to do it over, since she said those colors shouldn’t be used together. I was a polite and obedient child, but I asked her why they didn’t match — since God used them together in nature. She was exasperated and told me to follow her rules. So when I see glorious beauty which mixes green and blue — such as this photo I took just outside my office Friday afternoon — it always reminds me of Mrs. Arnold. It reminds me that she was wrong. And it’s a good reminder for us all. There are established rules about a lot of things. Many of those are good rules. But if an expert tells you something and you know he’s wrong, you might need to take a chance. He might be just as mistaken as Mrs. Arnold was.
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Briefly: Trump supporters in denial as their narcissistic hero sets the world on fire
Get over it: There’s no media conspiracy against your beliefs
Romantic interest no easier now than it was for me in sixth grade
AUDIO: We lose the love we need by letting imperfections scare us
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‘All animals are equal, but [deaf] animals are more equal than others’
I’m slowly learning how to be contented as an ordinary man