"Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad." -Proverbs 12:25
Midnight Blue (1963): Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga. Midnight Blue is one of Burrell’s best-known works for Blue Note Records. In 2005, NPR included the album in its "Basic Jazz Library", describing it as "one of the great jazzy blues records".
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"You are not designed for everyone to like you” - Wise Man Phil
1923: USC and Penn State played the first New Year's Day game in the Rose Bowl. The Trojans prevailed, 14-3. (Courtesy of the Archives, Pasadena Museum of History, Main Photo Collection) - "A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.” - Charles Spurgeon
Masthead: December 2013
1931: First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. The men in the picture were in line to get paid for their efforts. - "In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” -Acts 20:35
Masthead: Novemeber 2013
November 22, 1962: Lions 26 Packers 14. The Lions sacked Bart Starr 11 times in Green Bay's only loss of the year. - "All Black Friday tells me is that I'm getting screwed the other 364 days of the year." -Shawn Bailey
Masthead: October 2013
1967: The Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski stares at Fenway’s Green Monster during the 1967 World Series. Photograph: Focus On Sport/Getty. - "Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you." -anonymous
Masthead: September 2013
"Buddy System": Bryce Bailey ('14) & Jason Singleton ('26) (Columbus Academy - 8.21.13) - "Opportunity is the place where your gifts and someone's needs intersect....." -Dr. Henry Cloud
Masthead: August 2013
Keb' Mo' - Release date: 6.27.94 - “One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself in someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles" -Condoleezza Rice
Masthead: July 2013
1776: David McCullough (Simon & Schuster - May 24, 2005) - “Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us” — Tim Keller
Masthead: June 2013
1964 Matsers: Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer - “What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.” - Peggy Noonan
Masthead: May 2013
Preservation Hall: established in 1961 to preserve, perpetuate, and protect one of America’s truest artforms – traditional New Orleans Jazz - “Knowledge is knowing the right thing. Wisdom is doing the right thing.”
Masthead: April 2013
Opening Day: 1st Pitch thrown by President Woodrow Wilson (April 20,1916) - Griffith Stadium: New York Yankess (4) vs Washington Senators (12). Walter Johnson pitched a complete game and was the opening day winning pitcher for the Senators. - “We were not laughing at you because you liked Justin Timberlake. We were laughing at you because you thought you were Justin Timberlake - big difference!” - Jen Kowalke
Masthead: March 2013
January 11, 1968 - Tulane Gymnasium: Pistol Pete Maravich (52 pts) FG 20-42 . FT 12-15 . 5 Boards . 8 Dimes - “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost
Masthead: Feburary 2013
BB King: Fillmore East - New York City (June 19,1971) - "If God can make penicillin out of moldy bread, He can surely make something out of you; me." ~Muhammad Ali