Photography by John Michael

Risks and Costs

John Michael — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:36:56 +0000

“There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy GHTime Code(s): nc ©2012 Photography by John Michael. All Rights Reserved..

Visions of sugarplums…

John Michael — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:19:02 +0000

The Season of Giving…

John Michael — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:45:42 +0000

perhaps should be all year round. … [To] take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. –Thomas More GHTime Code(s): nc ©2012 Photography by John Michael. All Rights Reserved..

A Chaplain Speaks Out…

John Michael — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:26:37 +0000

A Chaplain of the US Senate, Edwards Everett Hale was educated at Harvard, A Boston minister, noted scholar and one who believed in the government control of monopolies, had this to say about the US Senate when asked one day: “Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?” he replied, “No, I look at the [...]

A Date That Will Live in Infamy…

John Michael — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:33:50 +0000

The morning of December 7, 1941 - seventy years ago today December 7, 2011 - The Japanese sprung a surprise attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor Hawaii . Included in the attack were many of the ships docked in the harbor and Hickham Airfield. Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and [...]

A New Christmas Gift Giving Tradition

John Michael — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:23:52 +0000

Today, December 6th is Saint Nicholas’s Day – the beginning of Christmas gift giving . My roommate from college normally sends me jokes… lots of jokes, but sometimes he waxes philosophical and I thought I’d share his latest set of suggestions with you for Christmas gift giving. It truly makes sense (though I still want a [...]

A US President Gives Counsel

John Michael — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:57:21 +0000

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. ~Theodore Roosevelt PS He actually “earned” the Nobel Peace Prize by mediating the Russo- Japanese War GHTime Code(s): nc nc ©2012 Photography by John Michael. All Rights Reserved..

A President is Laid to Rest

John Michael — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:13:37 +0000

25 NOV 1963 - The world was focused on Washington DC and Arlington National Cemetery, for the United States of America was paying final honors to it’s fallen President. Gunned down in the prime of his life, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was laid to rest 48 years ago in a place that he had remarked [...]

It’s Monday, So Sing Praise to God !

John Michael — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:03:02 +0000

O GOD, I thank You for this day of life for eyes to see the sky, for ears to hear the birds for feet to walk amidst the trees, for hands to pick the flowers from the earth, for a sense of smell to breathe in the sweet perfumes of nature, for a mind to [...]

What makes leadership different

John Michael — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:11:04 +0000