Tag: Abraham Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln – as Mim’s Grandfather remembered him

  Last summer Mim spent many days systematically going through boxes and boxes filled with old papers, photos, and books that had belonged to her parents and grandparents. One yellowed newspaper, carefully protected in a waxed paper-like envelope was the Decorah Public Opinion from Decorah, Iowa, dated Wednesday, February 10, 1909. That is the year Abraham…

  Marian

  February 10, 2023

  Blogs, Celebrations, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Abraham Jacobson, Abraham Lincoln, court house, court room, Decorah newspaper, Decorah Public Opinion, justice, Lincoln's birthday, Micah 6:8, Mim's grandfather, personal reminiscences, Springfield, Springfield Illinois

• The Virtue of Inconsistency

  My favorite quotation of all time was made by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I loved it the first time I read it, back when I was a literature major in college: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I always thought “hobgoblin” was a fun-to-say word – almost onomatopoeic – the sound it makes…

  Marian

  April 29, 2014

  Reflections

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