8 Oct
2013
“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles” said William Penn, Quaker founder of the Pennsylvania colony. He founded his colony on religious toleration and by doing so, he created America’s first great melting pot. English, Irish, Germans, Catholics, Jews, and an assortment of Protestant sects were drawn to […]
From Chronicle — The Ideal English Major: Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of consciousness than we ourselves possess. When we walk the streets of Manhattan with Walt Whitman or contemplate our hopes for eternity with Emily Dickinson, we are reborn […]