Last year at this time the learned Scarecrow, Hon. Ph.D., delivered the first Emerald City University commencement address. This year the administrators at ECU conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters on the Tin Man. What follows is his address to the Class of 2011: My heart was filled with pride when the Chancellor of [...]
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Heartfelt words to the Class of 2011 from the Tin Man.
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, Yellow brick road on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Loving and living the seaons on the YBR.
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, Yellow brick road, tagged Dorothy, fall, Lion, Oz, Scarecrow, spring, summer, Tin Man, winter, Yellow brick road on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The front of our house in the fall. Of the four seasons I like autumn the best…except when it’s winter, and then I like winter best…unless it happens to be spring because I like spring best…but when it’s the summer, that’s the best season of all. (Boy, if that doesn’t sound like the answer you’d [...]
Long drives on the YBR. A ‘whole’ in one on the course of a lifetime.
Posted in Brain, Heart, Yellow brick road, tagged golf, golf course, Tiger Woods on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I am not a golfer. In fact, I won’t go near a course that doesn’t have a windmill and a big clown head. So I really can’t explain a recent dream I had about an Emerald City golf course, other than to say a dream is often the fuel of imagination and keeping a blog [...]
Tommy and Johnny holding these truths to be self-evident on the YBR.
Posted in Brain, Courage, Heart, Yellow brick road, tagged 1776, Declaration of Independence, John Adams, Oz, Thomas Jefferson on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Oz was not unlike most countries in the world. At least half the people of Oz lived in bondage. And it wasn’t until two leaders were killed that the people were freed from those bonds of tyranny. Many Americans take our freedoms for granted. We fail to acknowledge the fact that many people alive today [...]
Some of the people you meet on the YBR…make you wonder.
Posted in Uncategorized, Yellow brick road, tagged Alexander H. Cohen, Broadway, David Merrick on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Think about all the people you meet along the way on the YBR. Some of the people we meet over the course of a lifetime are in and out of our lives with the speed of a tornado. Other people we meet turn into friends we have for life. Some of the people we meet [...]
