ONCE upon a time there was a poor laborer who, feeling that he had not much longer to live, wished to divide his possessions between his son and daughter, whom he loved dearly. So he called them to him, and said: “Your mother brought me as her dowry two stools and a straw bed; I [...]

Nothing but you, I dream all the time, Throughout the day, throughout the night, Be my companion, I want to fly, Fly towards the highest height with you, Nothing is there I imagine without you, You’re my soul, I breathe for you, I won’t exist if you aren’t there for me, I desire nothing, nothing [...]

The Story of Nelson Me Nelson Mandela is one of the world’s most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy. Jailed for 27 years, he emerged to become the country’s first black president and to play a leading role in the drive for peace [...]

–posted by wayfarer Good sense might have suggested I stay in today.  There was snow on the ground and we really don’t have any money to be spending right now. But, there were a couple of things I needed, so I gathered what cash I had together and hopped on to the bus to the next [...]

Love is not bounded by borders, distinctions or distance…. ultimately we all find our beloved… here’s a tribute to the founders of love….the eternal love birds: Adam & Eve **My world was here, my life was here, You were here, I was here. But when we met I got to know, I was missing a [...]

Kind of funny: Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.   Link to this post!

THERE once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play ball all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not [...]

ONCE upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they [...]

As a senior at Vanderbilt University, Zac Hood got his first glimpse of a world very different than the one he knew in Nashville, Tennessee. Fueled by that initial trip to Belize and his passion for sports, youth, and serving the poor, Zac founded Sports Servants. Last Spring Zac won a state championship coaching the [...]

Throughout our lives, we are inevitably faced with many different kinds of relationships. Interaction with others is a very fundamental aspect of our lives whether it is with friends, significant others, parents, or even strangers. Usually, these relationships fall into three categories: selfish, mutual, and selfless. When we engage in a selfish relationship, we continually [...]