The Milky Way Sometimes on a dark summer night I find myself out in the country. It is peaceful and quiet and a time for reflecting on all the beautiful things in our lives. Sometimes they are close, like friends. And …
Virgil’s Corner #14
A Place of Quiet and Honor Amid our busy lives, we sometimes yearn for a place of silence, solemnity and rest from the pressures of life. There is such a place. It is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Its …
Virgil’s Corner #13
Some years ago, a man walked out of a metro subway station in downtown Washington, D.C. He wore blue jeans and a T-Shirt. Many people were hurrying by as the man went to the wall of a building and took up station right …
Virgil’s Corner #12
An Event on a Rainy Night The elderly lady was growing more concerned as the rain pelted down on the roof of her silent car. Outside her windows, other cars swept by, oblivious to the woman's distress. Her trip had come to an …
Virgil’s Corner #11
Look for Kindness If we watch any news feed we can become overwhelmed by all the trouble in the world. But, Lloyd Nolan of "Music and the Spoken Word" gives us another perspective. It starts with a scene in an …
Virgil’s Corner #10
The winds of politics turned into a tornado in the last few months. Charges of a rigged election by a President who lost... uproar in a country divided... an attack on the U.S. Capitol that resulted in a riot... a second …
Virgil’s Corner #9
GOING FORWARD As I gaze our my window, I see winter wearing on. For many of us this natural march of the Seasons is dulled this year by the threat of a world wide pandemic and unrest here at home. The sight of thousands of …
Virgil’s Corner #8
THE PLAIN BROWN PAPER SACK As I look back to my youth, I find a memory of a plain brown paper sack. As a school boy I would rise every morning I and see my mother in the kitchen. She was carefully placing items in a plain …