Napoleonic Code: Everything is illegal unless made legal. Common Law: Everything is legal unless specifically identified as illegal. The two types of law don’t mix well but each have their merit for establishing justice. The U. S. functions on the basis of Common Law, which originated from England in the Middle Ages.

Cutting away at the string that connects them to health. A daily separation. A fissure that gets bigger with each puff.

Engaging in the details and realizing it’s just logic, a practice in thinking. Relaxing enough to let down the facade. Sharing the things that delight you.

You’re the Dutch in the 1600s. You’ve set up ports around the world to facilitate trade. One particularly successful settlement was christened New Amsterdam. Today known as New York. After various conflicts in the Third Anglo-Dutch War, where the Dutch re-conquered Manhattan, you trade New Amsterdam as a part of a peace treaty and get…

“It is not the rich man’s son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the “dark horse” in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.” “A new judge is very apt to stand so straight…