First Blog

  Field of Dreams We know it well. Picture this field as a vast plane, stretching to infinity. In it is contained all your hopes, ideas, wishes, aspirations, yearnings, and desires. Even faith has a presence. Many visit often. Some live there. Only a few have forgotten where it is. This field is special, part fantasy, part spiritual, part a plan, and part the solution. It is the place where dreams meet reality. Each of us sees this field stretching before our present and future. For each, there are hopes, even prayers for those dreams to come true.   Your field of dreams is a fertile plain, lush with flowers and grasses, but also with spines and thorns. because not everything growing there is what you want.   To be avoided are those most tempting, the dreams of excess. We should thus call this short essay Your Field of Dreams Parents often say, “Sweet dreams” to their children on tucking them in. Before that, you dreamt of having children, healthy and able, good and happy. Befo

You have a goal; teach an ant, (sugar ant, fire ant, army ant, any one of them) how to read.   Here are some tips: 1.       First, get its attention. 2.       Show it some examples of reading sources. 3.       Read to the ant, pointing out the words as you go along. 4.       Point to specific words, pronouncing them clearly. 5.       Explain the alphabet, and discuss how words are formed.             The net result for all your careful effort is the ant doesn’t learn a thing.   The obvious reason is that it hasn’t the “brain-power” to learn reading.    Moreover, it isn’t interested even with your infinite patience. It can’t distinguish your sounds.   In short it simply can’t comprehend what you are doing.   Its brain is not wired for learning written and spoken language.   The ant’s communication is limited to smell via chemicals called pheromones .   Yet, to the ant, its world is complete and is comprehended to its max. This silly example is to serve but one purpose –