One Thing Leads to Another

Who we are and how we respond to the world depends so much on how we have furnished the rooms of our mind.

(another one from the old blog)

I was flipping through a poetry book over the weekend and landed by chance on “The Destruction of Sennacherib.” If you read any poetry in high school or college, you probably encountered this piece by Lord Byron. I don’t remember studying or discussing the contents of the poem at all, but I do remember talking about its an…