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The Long View

Reflective essays on poetry, wisdom and the timeless truths worth living by.

Several times a week · About the author

Bobby Charles

Recent essays

  1. What Scripture Teaches Us About Patience and Humility Micah 6:8 asks us to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly, while Proverbs 14:29 warns that a quick temper displays folly.
  2. What WWII Veterans Taught About Hard Work and Resilience A turret gunner in an Avenger and a sailor who did hard time in the Pacific taught me plumbing, carpentry, and how to get back up when you fail.
  3. A Teacher's Lasting Light: Honoring a Life Well Lived Doris Anne lost her father at four, taught remedial reading in Monmouth, Maine, and nursed her ailing husband for three years, laughing through two divorces and every loss.
  4. Honoring Resilience: Stories of Veterans and Enduring Courage Corporal Ethan Reed of Boothbay Harbor died near Taechon in November 1950, his remains never returned, his name now on the Korean War Memorial Wall in Washington.
  5. What General Grant Teaches Us About Courage and Resolve The general who won at Appomattox trusted his gut over critics: "The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized."
  6. Mother Teresa's Counsel: Doing Small Things With Great Love Canonized a saint 23 years ago this month, Mother Theresa worked among India's poorest and left a line worth keeping: do small things with great love.
  7. No Act of Kindness Is Ever Wasted Aesop's mouse gnawed a trapped lion free 2,500 years ago, repaying mercy with mercy — a lesson Saint Paul and Jesus pressed on us about kindness we seem to be losing.
  8. Thank Goodness for Campfires A nose-to-nose moose at 12 in Kakadjo, a skunk mistaken for a raccoon, and the pull of flames that connected people around fires a million years ago.

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